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 first ran for mayor in 1990. I grew up in the 50's and 60's in the city of Trenton that had 125,000 people. Now we had 90,000. We had lost people, but we had a lot of jobs, a lot of manufacturing, strong neighborhoods, good schools. Then, in '90, a lot of it had deteriorated. People had moved ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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