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Mary Chapin Carpenter

Ancestry of
Mary Chapin Carpenter

Singer and Songwriter


Who is Mary Chapin Carpenter?

Mary Chapin Carpenter is a country and soft-rock singer and songwriter who has won five Grammay Awards. She is the only music artist to have won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Perfomance four years in a row. In 2012, Mary Chapin Carpenter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Famous Kin

Mary Chapin Carpenter is the 4th great-granddaughter of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. She is also a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke and Richard Warren. Mary Chapin Carpenter’s U.S. presidential kin include Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Tyler, Ulysses S. Grant and a number of others. She also has a kinship to the current royal family through Princess Diana.

Mary Chapin Carpenter’s family tree includes a number of fellow celebrities, most notable of which is probably her 5th cousin, fellow singer and songwriter Harry Chapin. Other celebrities include actress Jane Fonday, actor James Spader, folk singer Pete Seeger, singer and songwriter Taylor Swift, actor Dick Van Dyke, actress Shirley Temple, model Kate Upton, actress Raquel Welch, actor Matt Damon, actress Jodie Foster, and many others. Some of her more notable historical kin include English Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, folk artist Grandma Moses, poet Henry David Thoreau, abolitionist John Brown, polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, accused murderess Lizzie Borden, Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, and founder of Pennsylvania William Penn.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Ralph Earle

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via John Cooke

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Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via William Keeney

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

19th cousin
via Sir Edmund Ferrers

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

19th cousin
via Sir Thomas Mowbray

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

16th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Roger Wentworth

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir John Howard

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Warren

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

20th cousin
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

18th cousin
via Sir Ralph Neville

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

21st cousin
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Elizabeth Fitzalan

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

19th cousin
via Sir Edmund Ferrers

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

16th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas Blount

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Robert de Ferrers

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Charles M. Dale

66th Governor of New Hampshire

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Warren

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Horatio Alger

Author

7th cousin 5 times removed
via Francis Cooke

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Humphrey Bogart

Movie Actor

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Paul Giamatti

TV and Movie Actor

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

Major League Baseball Commissioner

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Charlie Munger

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Warren

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Francis Cooke

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Nat Faxon

Actor, Comedian, Director and Screenwriter

12th cousin
via Richard Warren

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

9th cousin 3 times removed
via Francis Cooke

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