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.
Because you need to understand about business. Small business makes the world go around. It brings the jobs, brings the people. You need to understand management: what goes into business, the obstacles in business, so you understand what a business person is trying to do each and every day: try...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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