Alexander Mitchell Palmer
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 - May 11, 1936) was a Congressional representative from Pennsylvania. Palmer was born near White Haven, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on May 4 of 1872; he attended the public schools of his area and prepared for college at the Moravian Parochial School in Bethlehem. Palmer graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891 and was appointed official stenographer of the forty-third judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1892. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1893 and practiced in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Palmer became director of various banks and public-service corporations and a member of the Democratic State executive committee of Pennsylvania. Palmer was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1909 - March 3, 1915); he was not a candidate for renomination in 1914, but ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate. Palmer was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912 and 1916, and a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1912 - 1920. He was appointed Alien Property Custodian on October 22, 1917, by President Woodrow Wilson, and served until March 4 of 1919, when he resigned to become Attorney General of the United States, in which capacity he served from March 5, 1919, until March 4, 1921. Palmer engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania and died in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 1936. He is buried in Laurelwood Cemetery, Stroudsburg.
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