Douglas Palmer served as Trenton, New Jersey's first African-American mayor from 1990 to 2010. From 2006 to 2008, he was president of the United States Conference of Mayors.
He was born in Trenton and attended Trenton public schools. He then graduated from the Bordentown Military Institute in Bordentown, New Jersey.
Douglas Palmer is a graduate of Virginia's private black college Hampton University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management in 1973.
I was a business major in college. Me and my dad owned a bar when I was in my 20's. That was very interesting. I had to get out of that business. It would have killed me. You have to deal with payrolls. You have to deal with people. You have to deal with inventory. I brought what I learned in ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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