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.
When I was younger, I had a very bad temper. I used to get in a lot of fights. My mom used to say, Douglas, you're going to get killed one day. You've got to change. I learned through humor, instead of punching a guy, just laugh at him. It's not like I could fight either. It wasn't like I was li...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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