Johnny Mercer
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 47 years ago |
Date of birth | November 18,1909 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Savannah |
Georgia | |
United States | |
Date of died | June 25,1976 |
Died | Hollywood |
Los Angeles | |
California | |
United States | |
Buried | Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, United States |
Albums | Sings Just for Fun |
An Evening with Johnny Mercer | |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Original Song |
Grammy Award for Song of the Year | |
Grammy Hall of Fame | |
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song | |
Academy Award for Best Music (Original Song) | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Spouse | Ginger Mehan |
Place of burial | Bonaventure Cemetery, Thunderbolt, Georgia, United States |
Children | Amanda Mercer |
John Jefferson Mercer | |
Parents | George Anderson Mercer |
Lillian Elizabeth Mercer | |
Official site | parliament.uk |
Full name | John Luther Mercer |
Nationality | British |
Education | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
Party | Conservative Party |
Position | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 424057 |
The Harvey Girls
Robin Hood
Darling Lili
To Have and Have Not
Star Spangled Rhythm
Something's Got to Give
Hollywood Hotel
Second Chorus
Here Come the Waves
All Through the Night
The Facts of Life
Bernardine
You Can't Run Away from It
Top Banana
Not with My Wife, You Don't!
Gold Diggers in Paris
Naughty But Nice
Old Man Rhythm
To Beat the Band
Johnny Mercer Life story
John Herndon Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs.
London Gaza rally: Rishi Sunak vows to hold Met chief 'accountable' over march
... Earlier, Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer said he fully recognised " the tensions at play" but urged people to come to London for remembrance events...
Minister raised concerns over closure of SAS war crimes investigation
...By Hannah O Grady and Joel GunterBBC PanoramaVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer raised serious concerns in government in 2019 over the decision to close an investigation into UK special forces...
Migrant hotel costs rise to £8m a day, Home Office figures show
... Cabinet Office minister Johnny Mercer confirmed the government had met its deadline to end the use of these bridging hotels for Afghan refugees by the end of August...
Nadine Dorries resigns: Labour and Lib Dems gear up for by-election battle
... Government minister Johnny Mercer dismissed her scathing criticism, but said she was " entitled to that view"...
Afghanistan refugees being let down by UK, says think tank
... Minister Johnny Mercer admitted there had been " challenges" but said he was determined to make Afghan schemes work...
Afghan refugees to move out of UK hotels over the summer
... Johnny Mercer confirmed that people still living in taxpayer-funded hotels and apartments will have to leave from as soon as the end of July...
LGBT veterans want military ban report immediately
... Veterans minister Johnny Mercer and the chairman of the independent review, Lord Etherton, gave speeches but no new details were released and no further timeframe was given for the report s publication...
War widows who lost pensions to receive compensation
... Veterans affairs minister Johnny Mercer welcomed the announcement, calling it " the culmination of a campaign that has gone on for about eight years and we have finally got there"...
General election 2019: Ten lesser-known MPs to keep an eye on
Parliament tends to be dominated by its grandest figures, The Party leaders, and their cabinet or shadow cabinet teams.
But others can cut a dash in The Commons by weight of expertise, through passion for an issue, by sheer street-smarts, or simply by being in The Right place at The Right time.
So here are a few MPs who - while not aspiring to The Top Table - could exert serious leverage in the newly elected House of Commons.
1. Eleanor Laing - ConservativeAfter a strong performance in the race to succeed John Bercow as Speaker - and in A House of Commons with many more Conservatives - she must surely be The Front runner to become Chairman of Ways and Means, the senior deputy speaker.
She would then have The Key responsibilities of chairing budget debates and selecting amendments for consideration by committees of the whole House - a key task when the government begins to push through its Withdrawal Agreement Bill.
2. Tom Tugendhat - ConservativeHe pulled off a considerable coup in 2017, when, as a junior backbencher, he wrested the chairmanship of The Foreign Affairs Committee from ex-minister Crispin Blunt .
An ex-army officer - he served in Iraq and Afghanistan - Tugendhat writes notes to himself on an office whiteboard in Arabic to preserve privacy. He's a reasonable bet for a ministerial job, perhaps in The Foreign Office.
Hawkish on Russia - he said the Salisbury poisoning was "if not an act of war… certainly a warlike act by the Russian Federation " - expect him to be an influential voice on foreign policy if he remains on the backbenches.
3. Rachel Reeves - LabourChairwoman of The Business , Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee - where she performed impressively - she is being tipped as the person around whom The Remains of the Blairite-Brownite group of Labour MPs might coalesce.
That may not translate into an attempt on the leadership, but she may now become an important factional leader.
4. Johnny Mercer - ConservativeFew MPs come into Parliament with a clearly defined policy mission, but the ex-army officer who won Plymouth Moor View against the expectations of his own party, announced himself with a blistering maiden speech on the need for better care for military veterans.
He was an early backer of Boris Johnson 's leadership campaign and was frequently seen shepherding the would-be leader around Westminster. His support was rewarded with The Job he always Wanted - Defence Minister responsible for veterans. Mercer will expect the political support and funding to reform The System .
5. Mel Stride - ConservativeBriefly Leader of The House in the Dog Days of Theresa May 's premiership, the former Treasury minister found himself surplus to requirements when Boris Johnson took over. But with gazelle-like agility, he leapt into the vacancy created when Nicky Morgan left as chairwoman of the Treasury Committee.
He didn't have much time to make an impact in this key committee corridor job before the Election was called, but if he is re-elected as Parliament's scrutiniser-in-chief of Economic Policy (and others may cast covetous eyes on The Post ) he will get to pronounce on levels of spending and public debt at a ticklish moment for the UK economy.
6. Dan Jarvis - LabourDouble-hatted as Metro Mayor of South Yorkshire and MP for Barnsley Central. In a Parliament where one of the big themes looks certain to be devolution - and demands for greater powers for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - The Mayor of a fair chunk of left-behind territory could find himself "speaking for England".
Once talked up as a possible Labour leadership contender, he defied pressure to give up his Commons seat and maintains a perch in Westminster. He is a Parachute Regiment veteran with service in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan .
7. Bim Afolami - ConservativeSeen as a bit of a star of the 2017 intake, Afolami is on The Commons end of The Constitution Reform Group, a cross-party pressure group which wants to rebalance a constitution destabilised by an uneven devolution settlement.
This is The Group behind The Act of Union Bill, a private member's bill proposed by the former clerk of The Commons , Lord Lisvane. It may all sound high-powered and rather nerdy, but the tug of war between the nations and regions of the UK is set to be a big theme of the new Parliament, and Afolami looks set to be a player.
8. Ben Lake - Plaid CymruSmart, personable, and articulate in two languages he seized and held a seat which has see-sawed between Plaid and the Lib Dems since the 1990s. In his maiden speech, he complained of the steady, silent haemorrhage of Young People leaving their communities to seek opportunities elsewhere. A future leader?
9. Alyn Smith - SNPNewly elected, he is nonetheless an experienced figure, having served in the European Parliament since 2004. He looks ready-made to become the SNP's new Brexit spokesman in Westminster.
The Lib Dems' Wendy Chamberlain has taken the North East Fife seat from the SNP's Stephen Gethins 10. Wendy Chamberlain - Lib DemShe contested The Most marginal seat in the country (the SNP won with a majority of just two votes in 2017) in North East Fife.
An ex-police officer who is already attracting rave reviews. Part of an infusion of New Blood into a rather bruised and diminished Lib Dem parliamentary contingent.
And five farewellsThose leaving Parliament include Dr Sarah Wollaston , a GP who was originally elected as a Conservative in 2010 but ended up in the Lib Dems, by way of the short-lived Independent Group of MPs. Labour's Frank Field , a maverick Labour MP, almost permanently at odds with his constituency party, and the SNP's Stephen Gethins , who might have been a candidate to lead their Westminster group had he enjoyed a more comfortable majority, also both lost their seats.
Labour's Mary Creagh led a series of high-profile inquiries into the environmental issues around The Fashion industry and toxic chemicals in everyday life. And Dennis Skinner - the Labour stalwart would have been The Father of The House , the longest serving MP, had he survived the Election - also departs. He was first elected in 1970, and fell just short of half a century in The Commons .
Source of news: bbc.com