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.
One of the things I never did was to make a politically expedient issue. When you're mayor, it's where the rubber meets the road. It's not like in Congress or you're in a legislature where you take a vote, okay, it's a vote. When you're mayor, you're there everyday. You see the people in the sup...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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