Politics
NewsOnScale Staff
October 1, 2026
JJ Johnson is a declared candidate for President of the United States in 2028 and the founder of AMILLI AI, Corp. He is also, according to physical documents in his possession, a descendant of one of the most powerful noble families in English history.
The Documents
Johnson holds three physical documents.
The first is a genealogical record dated January 1958, titled "Genealogy of Maxine LaVaugh Smock Ware Pavey," covering nine points of attention including names, dates, births, and locations across Indiana and Virginia, with connections to the founder and first president of Hanover College, Indiana's oldest private institution, founded 1827.
The second is a 40 to 50 page pedigree chart commissioned by Johnson's grandmother and prepared around 1999 to 2000 by a professional researcher. It traces the family lineage in detail across multiple centuries and continents.
The third is a family crest document issued by a Historical Research Center, verified, affixed, and signed by an H.R.C. consultant on September 29, 2000, connecting the family to the Wars of the Roses through the Stafford name.
The Stafford Line
The family crest document identifies the Stafford family name as that of Buckingham, tracing back to the 14th century. Among the names documented is Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, born February 3, 1478, executed May 17, 1521 at Tower Hill.
Edward Stafford was no peripheral figure. He was the son of Henry Stafford, Second Duke of Buckingham, a central player in the Wars of the Roses. Edward himself was a first cousin once removed of King Henry VIII, a descendant of Edward III, and widely considered to have a stronger claim to the English throne than the Tudor line itself. Henry VIII had him beheaded for it.
The Stafford family line — Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham from the 14th century through 1521 — sits at the center of the Wars of the Roses, the dynastic conflict between the Houses of Lancaster and York that defined 15th century England and produced the Tudor monarchy.
The Chain Forward
From the Stafford line, Johnson's pedigree chart traces the lineage forward through the Danish royal connection, including Maria, Princess of Denmark, the out-of-wedlock daughter of King Frederick II, born in the 1500s. Maria married Jacob Stewart, Earl of Orkney. Their line continues through Susannah Outman, who married William Manning in 1592, and forward through the Stafford family's American descendants — Harry Sr. Safford, Harry Jr. Safford, Dorothie Safford — through the colonial era, through the Mayflower and John Howland, through the American founding, through connections to George Washington and many of the presidents the United States has already elected.
The 1958 genealogical record places the family in Indiana and Virginia, with a documented connection to the founding of Hanover College, established in 1827.
Who Holds It
Johnson holds the original documents. They have not been submitted to a genealogical society for independent verification. What exists is primary source material: named individuals, named marriages, named dates, across three separate physical documents spanning from a 1958 professional genealogy to a family crest authenticated in 2000.
Johnson is a 2028 presidential candidate and the founder of AMILLI AI, Corp., which built AMilliPay — agent-to-agent payment infrastructure for the AI agent economy — along with a portfolio of technology products deployed independently in 2025 and 2026.
The documents are in his possession. The lineage is named. The candidate is running.
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