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Johnny Mercer

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Johnny Mercer

Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records


Who was Johnny Mercer?

Johnny Mercer was a music industry businessman who co-founded Capitol Records with Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs. He was also a songwriter and composer who composed the music and/or lyrics for Broadway shows as well as feature films. He was nominated eighteen times for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and won four times.

Famous Kin

Johnny Mercer is a 3rd great-grandson of Revolutionary War hero General Hugh Mercer. Other famous military generals in his family tree include Confederate General Robert E. Lee, World War II General George S. Patton, signer of the Declaration of Independence General William Whipple, Confederate General James Longstreet, World War II General Douglas MacArthur, and World War II general and author of “The Marshall Plan” General George C. Marshall. His presidential kin include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and both Presidents Bush.

Johnny Mercer’s royal ancestry includes a direct descent from King Edward I and a couple of Magna Charta Sureties, Hugh le Bigod and Sir Saher de Quincy. He also has family connections to the current royal family including the late Princess Diana, Camilla Parker Bowles, and Catherine Middleton.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Johnny Mercer

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

16th cousin 3 times removed
via John of Gaunt

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

16th cousin 3 times removed
via John of Gaunt

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

21st cousin
via John, King of England

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Carly Fiorina

CEO of Hewlett-Packard

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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John Marshall

4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

15th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

14th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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William Fishback

17th Governor of Arkansas

17th cousin
via Richard Fitzalan

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Jack London

Author of “The Call of the Wild”

17th cousin
via Richard Fitzalan

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Samuel Prescott

Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

14th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Edward Norton

Movie Actor

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Douglas Trumbull

Film Special Effects Pioneer

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne and TV Personality

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Upton Sinclair

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Warren Buffett

Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

17th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Glenn Close

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Catherine Howard

5th Wife of King Henry VIII

6th cousin 11 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

16th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Paul Walker

TV and Movie Actor

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Jennifer Coolidge

TV and Movie Actress

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Edward I, King of England

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Seth Low

Mayor of New York City
President of Columbia University

15th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas de Holand

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