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.
As mayor, I created a Mayor's Office for Employment and Training and looked at reentry and giving people second or third chances. It's been my experience you have people going to prison and they come out worse than they went in because they're not getting any training. All they're doing is pumping...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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