Jim Bob Duggar

(2020-01-07 ) January 7, 2020 (age 4 months 21 days)

(2019-11-27 ) November 27, 2019 (age 6 months 1 day)

(2019-11-02 ) November 2, 2019 (age 6 months 26 days)

(2019-11-08 ) November 8, 2019 (age 6 months 20 days)

(2018-07-19 ) July 19, 2018 (age 1 year 10 months)

(2018-06-08 ) June 8, 2018 (age 1 year 11 months)

(2018-02-23 ) February 23, 2018 (age 2 years 3 months)

(2017-09-12 ) September 12, 2017 (age 2 years 8 months)

(2017-07-08 ) July 8, 2017 (age 2 years 10 months)

(2017-02-06 ) February 6, 2017 (age 3 years)

On May 19, 2015, In Touch Weekly reported that Duggar had told the Arkansas State Police that his oldest son had molested five underage girls, including family members, when he was 14–15 years old. The abuse involved touching their breast and genital regions on multiple occasions while they slept and in a few cases while they were awake.

Duggar and his wife have written two books together, both published by Howard Books. The first is titled The Duggars: 20 and Counting!, which was released on December 2, 2008. Their second is A Love That Multiplies, which was released June 7, 2011.

In 2008, Duggar and his wife endorsed former Governor Mike Huckabee in his campaign for the Republican presidential primaries. In January 2012, the Duggars endorsed Republican former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania for president.

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have guardianship of Tyler Hutchins, born February 10, 2008, whose birth mother is Rachel Hutchins, Michelle Duggar's niece.

Duggar spoke officially to law enforcement in 2006 after his son's actions were reported to authorities by producers of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which received an email making allegations against Josh Duggar. Because the three year statute of limitations had already passed once the allegations were formally documented, Josh Duggar was not formally charged with criminal sexual abuse.

In 2002, rather than seeking reelection the state House, Duggar ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary election for the United States Senate. He was defeated by the incumbent Senator Tim Hutchinson by a lopsided vote of 71,576 to 20,546. In 2006, Duggar unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the District 35 seat in the Arkansas State Senate. He lost to his opponent, Bill Pritchard, by two hundred votes.

From 1999 to 2002, Duggar served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 6, which included part of northern Washington County. Duggar was vice chair of the House Corrections and Criminal Law Subcommittee and also participated in the committees on Insurance and Commerce and Judiciary.

On July 21, 1984, Duggar married Michelle Ruark. Together, the couple has 19 children: Joshua ("Josh") (b. 1988), twins Jana and John-David (b. 1990), Jill (b. 1991), Jessa (b. 1992), Jinger (b. 1993), Joseph (b. 1995), Josiah (b. 1996), Joy (b. 1997), twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah (b. 1998), Jason (b. 2000), James (b. 2001), Justin (b. 2002), Jackson (b. 2004), Johannah (b. 2005), Jennifer (b. 2007), Jordyn (b. 2008), and Josie (b. 2009). The family was featured on the reality series 19 Kids and Counting from 2008 to 2015. On November 8, 2011, Duggar's wife announced she was pregnant with their 20th child, whom they named Jubilee Shalom. On December 8, 2011, it was announced she had miscarried.

James Robert "Jim Bob" Duggar (born July 18, 1965) is an American real estate agent, politician and television personality, known for the reality series, 19 Kids and Counting, which aired from 2008 to 2015. From 1999 to 2002, he was a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.

Duggar was born in Springdale, now the fourth largest city in Arkansas, the son of James Lee "Jimmy Lee" Duggar (1936–2009) and the former Mary Lester (1941–2019), who owned a real estate brokerage agency. Duggar has an older sister, Deanna (b. 1962). He graduated from Shiloh Christian School.