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 thinking the other day, when I was talking to some of the students here, about some people are leaders by virtue of their rank. Let's take the military. You're a lieutenant. Who knows how you got to be a lieutenant? Or a captain or whatever. You could be the leader by virtue of your rank ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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