Jerry Falwell

Biography

Jerry Laymon Falwell was a renowned American Baptist pastor and televangelist who founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, and later co-founded Liberty University in 1971. He was also a key figure in the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979, a conservative activist group. With his twin brother Gene, Falwell had a marked early life marked by family struggles before finding love with Macel Pate at Park Avenue Baptist Church.