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Dr. James Dobson

James Clayton "Jim" Dobson, Jr. (born April 21, 1936) is an American evangelical Christian  author, psychologist, and founder of Focus on the Family (FOTF). Dobson, who founded the nonprofit organization in 1977 and also chaired it until 2003, has never drawn a salary from the organization, but has used it to promote his related books and publications, yielding him royalties for sales through other venues.

As part of his 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's Focus on the Family show ended in February, 2010, with a new non-FOTF radio show, Family Talk with Dr. James Dobson, slated to start in the spring of 2010.He founded the Family Research Council in 1981.

He is an evangelical Christian with conservative views on politics.He has been referred to as "the nation's most influential evangelical leader" by Time, and Slate has indicated him as a successor to evangelical leaders Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson.

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