| James Orsen Bakker ‡ | ||
| Birth | January 2, 1940 in Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan "Muskegon, Michigan" | |
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| Father: | Raleigh Bakker (1906-1998) | |
| Mother: | Furnia Lynette Irwin (1906-1998) | |
| Wife: | Tamara Faye LaValley (1942-2007) | |
| Wedding: | April 1, 1961 | |
| Wife (2): | Lori Beth Graham (?) | |
| Wedding2: | 1998 | |
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James Orsen Bakker was born 2 January 1940 in Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan to Raleigh Bakker (1906-1998) and Furnia Lynette Irwin (1906-1998) and is now 70 years of age. James Orsen married Tamara Faye LaValley 1 April 1961 .
James Orsen Bakker is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program. A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce and effectively ended his time in the larger public eye.
| Offspring of James Orsen Bakker and Tamara Faye LaValley (1942-2007) | ||
| Name | Birth | Death |
| Tammy Sue Bakker (1970) | ||
| Jamie Charles Bakker (1975) | ||
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