Richard H. Overholt

(1901-1990) born in Ashland, Saunders County. Physician and chest surgeon, pioneer in the U.S. anti-smoking crusade in the early 1930s, an innovative pioneer in thoracic surgery, performed the world's first successful right pneumonectomy among many other advancements in surgical treatment. Consult Richard H. Meade, A History of Thoracic Surgery (Charles C. Thomas, 1961) index for pages, and Boston Globe Magazine, May 4, 1986 pp. 13+ and obituary in Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 53 (April 1992) 719-725.

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