Jim Bob Duggar

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name = Jim Bob Duggar


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caption = Jim (left) with his wife Michelle (right).
birth_date = birth date and age|1965|7|18
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occupation = Real estate agent
Former Arkansas state legislator candidate
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spouse = Michelle Duggar (née Ruark),
born Sep 13, 1966, couple married July 21, 1984
nationality = American
website = [http://www.duggarfamily.com www.duggarfamily.com]

James Robert "Jim Bob" Duggar (born July 18, 1965) of Tontitown, Arkansas, is a former state legislator who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. He is a real estate agent, and owns several commercial properties in his local area. [cite web |url= http://www.quiverfull.com/articles.php/id20/ |title= 13 Children Add Up To Asset For Challenger |author= Carrie Rengers |work= Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |date= 9 September 2001 ] cite web |url= http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/121805dntexbigfamily.2bb5559.html |title= For Arkansas family, 18's not a crowd |author= Arnold Hamilton |work= The Dallas Morning News |date= 19 December 2005 |quote= The Duggars are an anomaly, attracting worldwide media attention. ] He is perhaps best known as the father of the Duggar family, which currently includes seventeen children, with an eighteenth expected in January 2009.

Duggar ran in the Republican Party of Arkansas primary election for United States Senate candidacy in 2002, but lost to Tim Hutchinson. [cite web |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E4DA1E38F930A15756C0A9649C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fH%2fHutchinson%2c%20Tim |title= Senator Wins in Arkansas |author= Staff reporter |work= The New York Times |date= 23 May 2002 ] Duggar sought the Republican nomination to the Arkansas State Senate District 35 seat in Arkansas in 2006, [cite web |url= http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2006/03/29/News/335335.html |title= Duggar runs for Springdale state Senate seat |author= Doug Thompson |work= Arkansas News Bureau |date= 29 March 2006 ] but lost to candidate Bill Pritchard.

Jim Bob DuggarImdb name|id=2285649|name=Jim Bob Duggar.] and his wife Michelle,Imdb name|id=2285485|name=Michelle Duggar.] who was named Young Mother of the Year in Arkansas in 2004,cite web |url= http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/04/earlyshow/contributors/melindamurphy/main615586.shtml |title= What a Mother! |author= Melinda Murphy Interview with the Duggars |work= The Early Show |date= 5 May 2004 |quote= Michelle Duggar just won the "Young Mother of the Year Award" in Arkansas, which is sponsored by American Mothers Incorporated. ] cite web |url= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5060048/ |title= (The Duggar family with Governor Huckabee) |author= Associated Press |work= MSNBC |date= 25 May 2004 |quote= (Photo Caption) Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, far right, speaks with Michelle Duggar as the Duggar family poses for a photograph after Michelle was named Arkansas Young Mother of the Year on April 7 in Little Rock. ] are conservative Baptists [Carrie Renegers. [http://www.quiverfull.com/articles.php/id20/ "13 Children Add Up to Asset for Challenger] . "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette" (September 9, 1999) reprinted in Quiverfull [http://www.quiverfull.com/index.php website] . Retrieved September 22, 2007.] who endorse the Quiverfull movement and the teachings of Bill Gothard.

Jim Bob Duggar and his wife report that their children are blessings from God, since his wife miscarried while on birth control, and was able to conceive many more times once she stopped taking birth control. [cite web |url=http://www.duggarfamily.com/aboutus.html |title= Dugger Family About Us Page ]

References

ee also

*Duggar family

External links

* [http://www.duggarfamily.com/ Duggar family website.]
* [http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/08/03/17.kids.ap/index.html August 2007 report] on CNN