Abraham John Palmer (January 18, 1847 â April 17, 1922) was an American physician, Methodist minister and politician.
Palmer was born in Frenchtown, New Jersey on January 18, 1847. Little is known of his childhood.
He was a teenager throughout the American Civil War. He turned 18 on January 18, 1865.
Sometime after 1866 he had moved to New York.
Palmer was elected in November 1912 as a Progressive with Republican endorsement to the New York State Senate (27th D.), and was a member of the 136th and 137th New York State Legislatures in 1913 and 1914.
In April, 1913, he introduced a bill in the New York Legislature to repeal public utility franchises of all types after a term of twenty-five years.
In February 1914, he announced that he would not vote with the Progressives anymore, after a combination of Democratic and Progressive legislators had elected Homer D. Call as State Treasurer.
He died on April 17, 1922.