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.
If I walk into a room and I'm the smartest person in the room, that's a room I don't want to be in that long because I want people to continue to challenge me and I want to learn. When I chose my cabinet I said I'm going to look for the brightest and the best. I may have expertise in economic devel...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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