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.
Some people think they're a leader and they're not. You say, You think you are, but believe me, I can see that you're not. Or people say, Oh, I'm not a leader, but there will be people that will listen to each and everything that they say and do. You need to find out what a person really thinks, fi...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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