Biography

He, along with Frances and Donnie, lived in poverty during the 1950s as he preached throughout rural Louisiana, struggling to survive on $30 a week.

Before he was a successful televangelist, he used to work as a construction worker near his hometown in Ferriday, Louisiana.

Went to high school with cousins Mickey Gilley and Jerry Lee Lewis.

When he was 14, in 1949, he had enough of his father's strictness. Along with his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Swaggart was sneaking out to nightclubs, listening to blues music.

Friend of: Billy Graham, Robert H. Schuller, Oral Roberts, Kenneth Copeland, Jack Van Impe, Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye Bakker, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Kenneth E. Hagin, Jesse Duplantis, Jerry Savelle, Marilyn Hickey, Charles Stanley, Morris Cerullo, Charles Swindoll, James Dobson, James Robison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, John Osteen and Rex Humbard.

[When he was worried if he'd no longer preach] If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

[When he asks Christians to know their enemy]: Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that [President George W. Bush] has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.