{{Short description|American politician (1827–1907)}} {{other people|Francis Palmer}} {{Infobox officeholder |name=Francis Wayland Palmer |image=Francis W. Palmer - History of Iowa.jpg |office= 5th and 7th Public Printer of the United States |president= William McKinley<br>Theodore Roosevelt |term_start= 1897 |term_end= 1905 |predecessor= Thomas E. Benedict |successor= Charles A. Stillings |president1= Benjamin Harrison<br>Grover Cleveland |term_start1= 1889 |term_end1= 1894 |predecessor1= Thomas E. Benedict |successor1= Thomas E. Benedict |office2=Postmaster of Chicago |term_start2=1877 |term_end2 = 1885 |appointer2= Rutherford B. Hayes |preceded2= John McArthur |succeeded2= S. Corning Judd |state3=Iowa |district3=5th |term_start3=March 4, 1869 |term_end3 = March 3, 1873 |preceded3=Grenville M. Dodge |succeeded3=James Wilson |state_assembly4= New York |district4= Chautauqua County, 2nd |term_start4= January 1, 1854 |term_end4= December 31, 1855 |preceded4= Jeremiah Ellsworth |succeeded4= Smith Berry |birth_date= {{birth date|1827|10|11}} |birth_place=North Manchester, Indiana, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1907|12|3|1827|10|11}} |death_place=Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |party=Republican |spouse= |footnotes=}}
'''Francis Wayland Palmer''' (October 11, 1827 – December 3, 1907) was an American politician, publisher, printer, editor and proprietor from New York, Iowa and Illinois.
==Early life and education== Born in North Manchester, Indiana, Palmer moved to Jamestown, New York with his parents as a child and learned the printing trade at the ''Jamestown Journal'' in 1841.
== Career == Palmer became the owner of the newspaper in 1848 and was a member of the New York State Assembly (Chautauqua Co, 2nd D.) in 1854 and 1855. He sold the ''Jamestown Journal'' in 1858 and moved to Dubuque, Iowa the same year where he became editor and one of the proprietors of the ''Dubuque Times''. Palmer served as Iowa state printer from 1861 to 1869, moved to Des Moines, Iowa in 1861 and was publisher and owner of the ''Iowa State Register''. He was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1868, serving from 1869 to 1873, not being a candidate for renomination in 1872. He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1873 and purchased an interest in the ''Inter-Ocean'', becoming its editor-in-chief. Palmer was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876, was appointed postmaster of Chicago by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877, serving until 1885 and served as Public Printer of the United States from 1889 to 1894 and again from 1897 to 1905.
== Personal life == Palmer died in Chicago, Illinois on December 3, 1907, and was interred in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
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==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} {{CongBio|P000038}} Retrieved on 2009-05-12
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