Pioneering physician and Montgomery native Luther Leonidas Hill Jr. (1862-1946) performed the first successful surgical repair of a wounded heart by an American in 1902. His son, Lister Hill, became a celebrated U.S. senator.
Luther Leonidas Hill
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