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.
It is an interesting question because everybody has role models for different reasons. I have to really say, when I think about that question, my first role model was my mom, and my dad, because I had great parents, but my mother was a real role model. She was a very tough lady. She was a gym tea...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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