1933-
Fundamentalist

Leader.

The integration of fundamentalist religion with electoral politics in the 1980s was largely designed by the Reverend Jerry Falwell. Falwell was the spokesman for the conservative religious organization known as the Moral Majority, and he was also the premier symbol for the New Right movement. His realization of the impact that conservative religious leaders blended with impassioned followers and modern media could have on politics hoisted him to the forefront of a political movement.

Foundations.

Jerry Falwell built his conservative base of operations in the small town where he was born in 1933, Lynchburg, Virginia. He began studying fundamentalism about the age of eighteen and attended Bible Baptist College in Springfield, Missouri. Falwell eventually became a popular fundamentalist preacher and host of his own syndicated television program, The Old Time Gospel Hour. His Thomas Road Baptist Church grew to feature several social services as...