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.
I want to go to the personal one about my baseball career. I was a prospect of the Pittsburgh Pirates. I went to Hampton University. I played ball there. They got rid of our team after our junior year, after we won the championship, which was bizarre. I became very disgruntled, very angry. I d...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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