John Palmer (January 29, 1785 - December 8, 1840) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was born in Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York. After completing preparatory studies, he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He then commenced practice in Plattsburgh, New York in 1810. Palmer also served as paymaster in the Eighth Regiment of the New York Militia in 1812.

Palmer was elected to Congress as a Democratic-Republican to the fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819). After leaving Congress, he was a district attorney until 1832. For part of the year 1832, he was a member of the New York State Assembly, after which he served as judge of Clinton County until 1837, when he resigned. He was elected as a Democrat to the twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1839), after which he did not run for reelection.

Palmer died in St. Bartholomew in the French West Indies at the age of 55.

John Palmer was the uncle of George William Palmer, also a U.S. Representative from New York.

John Palmer (born 1943 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian theatre and film director and playwright.

Cofounder of several Toronto theatre companies in the 1970s, Palmer is primarily a theatre director, whose credits include the original production of Brad Fraser's Wolfboy which marked the first acting role for Keanu Reeves.

He has also directed two feature films, Me in 1975 and Sugar in 2004.

He also directed/co-wrote the short film The Archer (2005), which is about the rise and fall of relationships. The film stars Kim Poirier, Dov Tiefenbach and Anthony Furey.

John Spencer Palmer (born September 10, 1935, in Kingsport, Tennessee) is a former news correspondent for NBC News. He worked for the network over the course of 40 years, first from 1962 to 1990; and again from 1994 until his retirement in 2002. During his tenure with NBC News, he held several positions, including correspondent stints in Chicago, Paris, and the Middle East; White House correspondent (1979-1982); news anchor for The Today Show (1982-1989); and anchor for NBC News at Sunrise (1989-1990).

Palmer officially joined the Today cast as news anchor on September 27, 1982, replacing Chris Wallace, who had read the news and served as Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley's Washington co-anchor. The team of Gumbel, Pauley, Palmer, Willard Scott, and Gene Shalit helped take The Today Show to the top of the ratings in 1986, where it stayed until the end of the decade.

After serving as Today news anchor for seven years, Palmer was abruptly replaced by Deborah Norville in September 1989, and was moved to Norville's old position at NBC News at Sunrise. Palmer left NBC News in March 1990 to anchor a syndicated program, Instant Recall. After that show was canceled, Palmer joined the Christian Science Monitor in December 1991 as anchor of Monitor Channel's short-lived World Monitor newscast. He later served as Washington correspondent for Monitor Radio.

In 1994, NBC News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert and NBC News president Andrew Lack invited Palmer to return to the network as a Washington correspondent, and Palmer accepted. He was soon back on familiar ground, serving as White House correspondent for the weekend edition of NBC Nightly News and an occasional substitute news anchor for The Today Show. He retired from NBC News in January 2002.

Palmer is a graduate of Northwestern University and obtained a master's degree from Columbia University.

Palmer is currently the host of The Informed Citizen and The Prudent Advisor on Retirement Living Television. Retirement Livings' content airs Monday-Friday 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM on CN8, the Comcast Network, which reaches 9 million homes on the Eastern Seaboard. Retirement Living also airs nationally on DirecTV Channel 364 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday.

John also serves on the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina advisory council and won the department of communications prestigious Distinguished Communicator award

John Palmer (ca 1738 - 19 July 1817, Bath) was an architect who worked on some of the notable buildings of Bath in England. He succeeded Thomas Baldwin as City Architect in 1792.

John Palmer (28 January 1785, Bishop Middleham, County Durham - 23 August 1846, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester) was an architect who practised in Manchester.

John Palmer (born 25th September, 1959 in an airplane between London and Malta) is a composer of instrumental and electroacustic music.

Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatory of Music in Lucerne, Switzerland, having undertaken courses in composition and experimental improvisation with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar. Back to London, he undertook postgraduate studies in Composition at Trinity College of Music and completed a PhD in Composition at City University. Further studies include composition with Jonathan Harvey and conducting with Alan Hazeldine at the Guildhall School of Music. He was also a friend of John Cage. As a result of living in several countries, John Palmer has achieved an international cultural identity. He has equally been active in different musical genres: from 1976 to 1985 he composed and performed as a pianist and keyboard player and directed several groups ranging from experimental music to free-jazz and avantguarde pop. Since the mid-eighties he has focused on instrumental, orchestral, vocal and chamber music, and in the early nineties he extended his compositional interests with electroacoustic resources. From 1990 to 1995 Palmer taught at the Oxford University. From 1995 to 2000 he was a Senior Lecturer in Composition and Director of Research at the University of Hertfordshire, England. Since 2000 he is Professor at the University of Music of Stuttgart, Germany.

John Palmer (25.9.1959) is a composer of contemporary music (acoustic and electroacoustic).

Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatory of Music in Lucerne, Switzerland, having undertaken courses in composition and experimental improvisation with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar. Back to London, he undertook postgraduate studies in Composition at Trinity College of Music and completed a PhD in Composition at City University. Further studies include composition with Jonathan Harvey and conducting with Alan Hazeldine at the Guildhall School of Music. He was also a friend of John Cage. He has equally been active in different musical genres: from 1976 to 1985 he composed and performed as a pianist and keyboard player and directed several groups ranging from experimental music to free-jazz. Since the mid-eighties he has focused on instrumental, orchestral, vocal and chamber music, and in the early nineties he extended his compositional interests with electroacoustic resources. From 1990 to 1995 Palmer taught at the Oxford University. From 1995 to 2000 he was a Senior Lecturer in Composition and Director of Research at the University of Hertfordshire, England. Since 2000 he is Professor at the University of Music of Stuttgart, Germany. Reference: CDs and presentation of the composer are published by Sargasso, London, and on the composer's site.

John Palmer 1760-1833 was the Commissary of New South Wales, responsible for the colony's supplies. He arrived with the First Fleet in 1788, and was opposed to those who plotted against William Bligh.

Biography of John Palmer, Commissary