Pat Robertson

@Evangelist, Birthday and Childhood

Pat Robertson is a media mogul who hosts the Christian News, ‘The 700 Club’

Mar 22, 1930

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: March 22, 1930
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Evangelist, Media Mogul, Republicans, Yale University, Business People, Miscellaneous
  • Ideologies: Republicans
  • Spouses: Adelia Elmer Robertson
  • Siblings: Willis Robertson Jr.
  • Known as: Rev. Pat Robertson, Marion Gordon

Pat Robertson born at

Lexington city

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Birth Place

He married Adelia Elmer in 1954 and had four children. His son Gordon Robertson is also a broadcaster. Pat Robertson is the grandfather of several grandchildren.

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Personal Life

He was born on March 22, 1930, into a political family in Virginia to Absalom Willis Robertson and Gladys Churchill. His father was a conservative Democratic United States Senator.

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Childhood & Early Life

At birth he was named Marion Gordon Robertson. When he was a small child, his elder brother would pat him on the cheek and say “pat pat pat”. Thus he acquired his nickname, Pat.

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Childhood & Early Life

He enrolled at the preparatory McDonogh School when he was 11. He later graduated from The McCallie School, Tennessee, in 1946. Eventually he earned a B.A. in History from the Washington and Lee University.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1948 he drafted into the Army and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1952. After this he decided to get a law degree and enrolled at Yale Law School in 1955. But he couldn’t pass the New York bar exam.

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Career

Shortly thereafter he underwent a religious conversion and realized that his true calling was not to become a lawyer. He then went to the New York Theological Seminary and received a Master of Divinity degree in 1959.

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Career

He established the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1960 which was started as a small UHF station. Several years later he bought a Leased access cable TV channel in Hampton Roads which he called CBN.

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In 1966, the television program ‘The 700 Club’ premiered in the Christian Broadcasting Network and was aired on each weekday. It is one of the longest running television programs in broadcast history.

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In 1970 he established the CBN University on CBN’s Virginia Beach Campus and serves as its chancellor. The institution was renamed Regent University in 1989. A major public interest law firm associated with the university, American Center for Law & Justice was also founded by him.

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Career

He is best known as the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Networking (CBN) which is a Christian oriented religious television network and production company.

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Major Works