Clint Dempsey
Dempsey – 2014 NBA – NBA Global Games 2014 Tip Off Party at Sushisamba in London – January 15, 2014 – Sushisamba – Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos
Birth Name: Clinton Drew Dempsey
Place of Birth: Nacogdoches, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 9, 1983
Ethnicity: English, some Irish, Scottish, and German, very distant French
Clint Dempsey is an American professional soccer player, and sports analyst. A forward and midfielder, he played for New England Revolution, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur, and Seattle Sounders FC, and the U.S. national team. He is tied for the all-time record of international goals scored by an American player.
Clint is the son of Debralynn and Aubrey Dempsey. He is married to Bethany Keegan, with whom he has six children. He is a practising Catholic.
Clint’s paternal grandftather was A. Dan Dempsey (the son of David Marion “Dave” Dempsey and Ida Nora Phillips). Clint’s grandfather A. Dan was born in Texas. David was the son of Phillip Daniel Dempsey and Susanna/Susan Smelley/Smelly. Ida was the daughter of Isaac Moses Phillips and Phoebe Ann “Febban” Bass.
Clint’s paternal grandmother is Susie Maytrait Cureton (the daughter of Giles Napoleon Cureton and Susie Myrtle Chalker). Clint’s grandmother Susie was born in Texas. Giles was the son of Ellias/Elias L. Cureton and Laura E. Larabee/Larbie/Laribee. Clint’s great-grandmother Susie Chalker was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Chalker and Emma Visti Welden/Weldon.
Clint’s maternal grandfather is named Charles Robert Cates.
Clint’s maternal grandmother is named Jacklyn Anne Huffsmith (the daughter of Bennett Joseph Huffsmith and Mary M.). Jacklyn was born in Colorado. Bennett was the son of Jesse Bennett Huffsmith and Lucile Worrall, whose mother was born in Canada, to parents from England and Scotland, respectively.
Among Clint’s ancestors is William Brewster (c. 1566-1644), a Mayflower passenger and noted Pilgrim. Among many of William’s other descendants are actors Jordana Brewster, Paget Brewster, Austin Butler, Chevy Chase, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Taylor Lautner, Seth MacFarlane, and Elisabeth Shue, actors and models Noah Mills and Brandon Routh, director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer Zack Snyder, singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, novelists Margaret Atwood and Thomas Pynchon, Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas Winthrop Rockefeller, and soldier, civil engineer, and politician George B. McClellan.
Sources: Genealogy of Clint Dempsey – https://www.geni.com
Information about Clint’s family – http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Clint’s paternal grandfather, A. Dan Dempsey, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Clint’s paternal great-grandfather, David Marion “Dave” Dempsey – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Clint’s paternal great-grandmother, Ida Nora Phillips – http://www.genealogy.com
Death record of Clint’s paternal great-grandmother, Ida Nora (Phillips) Dempsey – https://www.findagrave.com
Clint’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Isaac Moses Phillips, on the 1860 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogy of Clint’s paternal great-great-great-grandfather, James Gilbert Bass – https://www.wikitree.com
Genealogy of Clint’s paternal great-grandfather, Giles Nepoleon Cureton (focusing on his own father’s side) – https://www.findagrave.com
Clint’s paternal great-grandmother, Susie Myrtle Chalker, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Clint’s maternal great-grandfather, Bennett Joseph Huffsmith, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
He’s got obvious SSA in him. He’s someone I’d like to see a dna test on.
Iranian and Turks are not Arabs.
That’s very weird. If you check the Daily Mail article, his family is very white, you see him as blond kid (facial features already odd though) between his blond sisters. I’d say he has a sort of New World look, like he would be part Puerto Rican (and not “Arab” as the feticist #muricansareallmuts say) .
@alice
It’s possible but he looks like he has something other than European in his background. A dna test would be interesting to see for him. Many people long term in the US do not know what they have in their background and can get a surprise if they do a dna test. A lot of Americans think they have Native American and far more have some SSA. It is definitely possible.
Yes, he could score small traces of non-European on a DNA test as other Americans whose family have lived in the South for generations. He has “Bass” ancestors from Louisiana thus that is a red flag, and a few relatives look relatively atypical in b/w pics. Bŕanches of Bass family sometimes identify as Native American.
If you scroll down his Bass line, one of his ancestors is listed as free person of color on tax records
https://www.geni.com/people/Edward-Bass/6000000004089176670?through=6000000004089212829