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African American cardiologist (1856–1931)

Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856^[a] – August 4, 1931) was an American surgeon and hospital founder.

A Black American, he founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. Provident also had an associated nursing school for African Americans.

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He is known for being the first to perform a successful heart surgery.^[1][2]

In 1913, Williams was elected as the only African-American charter member of the American College of Surgeons.^[1]

Biography

Early life and education

Williams was born in 1856 and raised in the city of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.

His father, Daniel Williams Jr., was the son of a Scots-Irish woman and a black barber.^[3] His mother, Sarah Price, was black American. His Williams family great grandfather was listed in the 1790 U. S. census for Philadelphia City, as 'other free,' a designati