biography
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Robertson, Pat
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popular name of Marion Gordon Robertson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Religious broadcaster and politician, born in Lexington, Virginia, USA. He studied at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, Yale Law School, and the New York Theological Seminary. He founded the Christian Broadcast Network in 1960 and began his popular religious talk show, the ‘700 Club’, in 1968. He realized early the possibilities of cable television for reaching a targeted audience, and became one of the most watchable and influential ‘televangelists’ of the 1980s. His failed run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988 showed the limits of his political appeal. Because of his business sense and media empire, Robertson remains one of the most important figures among evangelical Christians. |
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