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.
The other thing that is critically important, no matter whether you are in politics or business, that I found, is that you listen, not just talk, you listen. You try to get consensus. You try to listen to what other people's points of view are. It always makes me laugh. My chief of staff, Renae...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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