Updated: 9:45 ET, May 28 2021
REPUBLICAN political donor, investor, and philanthropist Foster Friess died on May 27, 2021.
Born in 1940, he was 81-years-old at the time of his passing.
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What was Foster Friess' cause of death?
Friess said in March 2021 that he was battling myelodysplastic syndrome, cancer that affects the bone marrow.
He was best known as a Republican donor who helped fund Rick Santorum's 2012 presidential campaign, as well as invested in conservative news site The Daily Caller.
Friess is also a philanthropist who is said to have given away $500million over the course of his life.
He ran for governor of Wyoming, where he called home in 2018, but he was defeated by Wyoming's current governor Mark Gordon.