Surgeon political contributions from Tennessee

The Surgeon × Tennessee join

LobbyVault stores FEC occupation strings separately from donor states. Crossing them for Surgeon and Tennessee yields $512,899. That is 1,201 itemized lines and 121 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Occupation strings can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping SURGEON. Related titles, abbreviations, and employer names are not added. The 121 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce. Physician, orthopedic surgeon, plastic surgeon, and medical doctor sit elsewhere.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the state and you see $18,386,780. Drop the string and you see the entire Tennessee hub. This page holds both filters at once. Tennessee SURGEON is a third state cell beside Arizona and Georgia. Specialty words after surgeon, if stored, are other occupation strings.

The occupation string SURGEON

A national figure of $18,386,780 can swallow a single state if the join is skipped. Tennessee is $512,899, 2.8%. The leftover $17,873,881 belongs on other state pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$18,386,780 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related title and not a sector total. 2.8% describes Tennessee inside Surgeon, nothing else. This join does not recode SURGEON into a Tennessee medical-board roster, an ACS fellowship file, or a hospital privileging list.

Volume: 1,201 lines, 121 identities

Packet arithmetic: $512,899 ÷ 1,201 ≈ $427 per contribution; $512,899 ÷ 121 ≈ $4,239 per donor; 1,201 ÷ 121 ≈ 9.9 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. Physician, orthopedic surgeon, plastic surgeon, and medical doctor are other keys and would change the means if merged.

The donor-state TN field

Remove Surgeon and the Tennessee hub still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is SURGEON in TN: $512,899, 1,201 contributions, 121 donors.

Donor state TN is an address on the itemized line. It is not proof of a Tennessee professional license and not a claim that the money stayed in Tennessee races. Academic-medical-center versus community-hospital surgical practice as typed is unpublished.

Where to go next from Surgeon in Tennessee

Start with $512,899, then Surgeon donations for the national occupation total, then Tennessee campaign finance if the occupation filter needs to come off. All occupations lists physician, orthopedic surgeon, plastic surgeon, and medical doctor as separate titles. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not invent donor names on this page. The individual-contribution cell remains $512,899 on 1,201 receipts from 121 donors. Tennessee SURGEON is a third state cell beside Arizona and Georgia. Specialty words after surgeon, if stored, are other occupation strings.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Nearby job titles belong on their own occupation hubs if stored as other strings. A mean gift is dollars divided by itemized lines, not a typical check. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Repeat the join in one line: occupation SURGEON ∩ state TN = $512,899, 1,201 receipts, 121 donors, 2.8% of $18,386,780. Neighbors remain physician, orthopedic surgeon, plastic surgeon, and medical doctor. Source remains FEC.gov.

Open /occupations/surgeon/ (Surgeon donations) for the occupation hub, /states/TN/ (Tennessee campaign finance) for the state hub, /occupations/ (All occupations) for neighboring titles, and /ties/ (All FEC ties) for other occupation-state joins.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Surgeon in Tennessee?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $512,899 from occupation Surgeon with donor state TN. That join covers 1,201 contributions from 121 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $18,386,780, so Tennessee is about 2.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

How much of the $18,386,780 Surgeon bucket is TN?

About 2.8% of the $18,386,780 Surgeon grouping is coded to Tennessee: $512,899. Contribution share is about 2.1% (1,201 of 56,508). Donor share is about 2.7% (121 of 4,547). The remainder $17,873,881 is other states.

Is Surgeon the same as physician?

No. 121 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $427 across 1,201 contributions. Physician, orthopedic surgeon, plastic surgeon, and medical doctor , if stored separately, are other keys. This join is SURGEON only.

Why is there a Surgeon × Tennessee page?

Surgeon donations carry the $18,386,780 occupation total. Tennessee campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the SURGEON × TN intersection only.