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Jimmy Swaggart (Jimmy Lee Swaggart) was born on 15 March, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana, U.S., is an American television evangelist (born 1935). Discover Jimmy Swaggart's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

Popular As Jimmy Lee Swaggart
Occupation Evangelist · singer · author · pastor · pianist
Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 15 March, 1935
Birthday 15 March
Birthplace Ferriday, Louisiana, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1935

Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal televangelist.

Jimmy Swaggart Ministries owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN).

Swaggart is the senior pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born on March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, to fiddle player and Pentecostal preacher Willie Leon (known as "Sun" or "Son") Swaggart and Minnie Bell Herron, daughter of sharecropper William Herron.

Swaggart's parents were related by marriage, as Son Swaggart's maternal uncle, Elmo Lewis, was married to Minnie Herron's sister, Mamie.

The extended family had a complex network of interrelationships: "cousins and in-laws and other relatives married each other until the clan was entwined like a big, tight ball of rubber bands".

Swaggart is the cousin of rockabilly pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and country music star Mickey Gilley.

1942

He also had a sister, Jeanette Ensminger (1942–1999).

With his parents, Swaggart attended small Assemblies of God churches in Ferriday and Wisner.

1950

According to his autobiography To Cross a River, Swaggart, along with his wife and son, lived in poverty during the 1950s as he preached throughout rural Louisiana, struggling to survive on an income of $30 a week.

Being too poor to own a home, the Swaggarts lived in church basements, homes of pastors, and small motels.

Sun Records producer Sam Phillips wanted to start a gospel line of music for the label (perhaps to remain in competition with RCA Victor and Columbia, who also had gospel lines at the time) and wanted Swaggart for Sun as the first gospel artist for the label.

Swaggart's cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, had previously signed with Sun and was reportedly earning $20,000 per week at the time.

Although the offer meant a promise for significant income for him and his family, Swaggart turned Phillips down, stating that he was called to preach the gospel.

1952

In 1952, aged 17, Swaggart married 15-year-old Frances Anderson, whom he met in church in Wisner, Louisiana while he was playing music with his father, who pastored the Assembly of God Church there.

They have a son named Donnie.

Swaggart worked several part-time odd jobs to support his young family and also began singing Southern Gospel music at various churches.

1955

Preaching from a flatbed trailer donated to him, Swaggart began full-time evangelistic work in 1955.

He began developing a revival-meeting following throughout the American South.

1960

In 1960, he began recording gospel music record albums and transmitting on Christian radio stations.

In the late 1960s, Swaggart founded what was then a small church named the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; the church eventually became district-affiliated with the Assemblies of God.

1961

In 1961, Swaggart was ordained by the Assemblies of God; a year later he began his radio ministry.

1971

In 1971, Swaggart began transmitting a weekly 30-minute telecast over various local television stations in Baton Rouge and also purchased a local AM radio station, WLUX (now WPFC).

The station broadcast Christian feature stories, preaching and teaching to various fundamentalist and Pentecostal denominations and playing black gospel, Southern gospel, and inspirational music.

1975

By 1975, the television ministry had expanded to more stations around the United States, and he began to use television as his primary preaching forum.

1978

In 1978, the weekly telecast was increased to an hour.

1980

Swaggart sold many of his radio stations gradually throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

In 1980, Swaggart began a daily weekday telecast featuring Bible study and music, and the weekend, hour-long telecast included a service from either Family Worship Center (Swaggart's church) or an on-location crusade in a major city.

In the early 1980s, the broadcasts expanded to major cities nationwide.

Throughout the 1980s, Jimmy Swaggart Ministries was one of many American Evangelical leaders who promoted the South African-backed Mozambican National Resistance, aka RENAMO, which was accused of committing systematic war crimes during Mozambique's 15-year-long civil war.

In addition to moral support and publicity, Swaggart Ministries was repeatedly accused of providing funding and material support to the group.

1982

Among the materials left behind by retreating rebels were piles of Swaggart's 1982 publication, "How to Receive The Baptism in the Holy Spirit", translated into Portuguese.

1983

By 1983, more than 250 television stations broadcast the telecast.

1985

In September 1985, government forces supported by Zimbabwe captured RENAMO's main headquarters inside Mozambique, Casa Banana.

1988

During the 1988 trial of Australian missionary Ian Grey, who coordinated much of the private support to RENAMO, it was claimed by the defendant that Swaggart Ministries worked through Shekinah Ministries to provide support to RENAMO.

That year, extensive media coverage of Swaggart and his businesses in the wake of a sex scandal largely excluded these allegations.

In 1988, Swaggart was accused of patronizing a prostitute.

He was suspended and ultimately defrocked by the Assemblies of God.

Three years later, Swaggart was implicated in another scandal involving prostitution.

1991

In 1991, Covert Action Magazine and the government of Zimbabwe both accused Swaggart ministries of continuing to fund RENAMO.