Berry Gordy III, known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., is an American retired record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer, and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades. He was born on November 28, 1929 (age 93 years), in Detroit, Michigan, United States
Are Berry Gordy and Jimmy Carter related?
Surprisingly, Motown Record founder Berry Gordy is related to former President of the United States Jimmy Carter.
BerryGordy III’s grandfather Berry Gordy I, was the son of James Thomas Gordy, a white farmer, and a female slave in Georgia. This James Thomas Gordy was also, by his wife Harriet Emily Helms, the great-grandfather of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, making Berry Gordy III and Carter second half-cousins.
James Earl Carter Jr. is an American retired politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A Democrat who previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.
He was born on October 1, 1924 (age 98 years), in Plains, Georgia, United States
Jimmy Carter’s retirement, now 42 years, is the longest in American presidential history. At age 98, Carter is also the oldest living president as well as the nation’s longest-lived president.
