James Dobson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James Dobson

Evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and radio broadcaster.

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1936

Place of Birth: Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Profession: businessperson, politician, psychologist, radio personality, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

James Clayton Dobson, Jr.
(born April 21, 1936) is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder in 1977 of Focus on the Family (FOTF), which he led until 2010.
In the 1980s he was ranked as one of the most influential spokesmen for conservative social positions in American public life.
Although never an ordained minister, he was called "the nation's most influential evangelical leader" by The New York Times while Slate portrayed him as a successor to evangelical leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.As part of his former role in the organization, he produced Focus on the Family, a daily radio program which according to the organization was broadcast in more than a dozen languages and on over 7,000 stations worldwide, and reportedly heard daily by more than 220 million people in 164 countries.
Focus on the Family was also carried by about sixty U.S.
television stations daily.
Dobson founded the Family Research Council in 1981.
He is no longer affiliated with Focus on the Family.
Dobson founded Family Talk as a non-profit organization in 2010 and launched a new radio broadcast, Family Talk with Dr.
James Dobson, that began on May 3, 2010 on over 300 stations nationwide.