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Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. ( August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007 ) was an American evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator.

He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia.

He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy ( now Liberty Christian Academy ) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.