Editing Palmyra, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Palmyra Nature Cove Driftwood October 2008.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Driftwood along the banks of the Delaware River in Palmyra Nature Cove in Palmyra]]
{{Category see also|People from Palmyra, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Palmyra include:
* [[Jim Bailey (entertainer)|Jim Bailey]] (1949–2015), singer, film, television and stage actor, and female impersonator<ref>Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DN&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI|DN&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB295431B8D9227&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Jim Bailey Banks On Fabulous Fakes"], ''[[Philadelphia Daily News]]'', May 13, 1983. Accessed November 26, 2013. "They moved to New Jersey when Jim was 10, and lived in Palmyra, Riverside and Willingboro before locating in Vincentown, where he visited them this week before his shore date."</ref>
* [[Lena Blackburne]] (1886–1968), major league baseball player and manager best known for his discovery of a mud in a tributary of the [[Delaware River]] near Palmyra which is still [[Baseball Rubbing Mud|used to rub down baseballs]], allowing pitchers to gain better control over the ball<ref>Mchale, Todd. [http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times_news/palmyra-dedicates-field-to-lena-blackburne-the-man-with-the/article_74786d4a-bc49-5880-babf-72226ba087c8.html "Palmyra dedicates field to 'Lena' Blackburne, the man with the special mud"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630172313/http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times_news/palmyra-dedicates-field-to-lena-blackburne-the-man-with-the/article_74786d4a-bc49-5880-babf-72226ba087c8.html |date=2012-06-30 }}, ''[[Burlington County Times]]'', April 13, 2012. Accessed June 27, 2012. "Palmyra — Russell 'Lena' Blackburne made his mark in baseball like no other. Sure, the borough native played in the big leagues, but to this day, his claim to fame remains the discovery he made in 1938 in a tributary of the Delaware River not far from his home."</ref>
* [[Jack Casey]] (1935–2019), member of the [[New Jersey Senate]] and [[New Jersey General Assembly|General Assembly]], who also served as mayor of Palmyra<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19970205120927/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/html/casey.htm Senator John "Jack" Casey], [[New Jersey Legislature]], backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of February 2, 1997. Accessed June 20, 2010.</ref>
* [[Deron Cherry]] (born 1959), former [[free safety]] for the [[Kansas City Chiefs]]<ref>[https://www.njsportsheroes.com/deroncherryfb.html Deron Cherry], NJSports.com. Accessed April 9, 2024. "Deron Leigh Cherry was born September 12, 1959, in Riverside and grew up in Palmyra.... He attended Palmyra High School, excelling on the athletic field and in the classroom."</ref>
* [[Robert K. Crane]] (1919–2010), biochemist best known for his discovery of sodium-glucose cotransport<ref>Hamilton, Kirk L. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605518/ "Robert K. Crane—Na+-glucose cotransporter to cure?"], ''[[Frontiers in Physiology]]'', 2013; 4: 53, published March 22, 2013. Accessed September 16, 2015. "Robert Kellogg Crane (1919–2010) was born in Palmyra, New Jersey to Wilbur Fiske Crane Jr., and Mary Elizabeth McHale Crane."</ref>
* [[Calvin T. Durgin]] (1893–1965), Vice Admiral who served in the U.S. Navy from 1916 until 1951, and was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air in 1949<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1965/03/26/archives/calvin-t-durgin-retired-admiral-college-head-and-carrier-commander.html "Calvin T. Durgin, Retired Admiral; College Head and Carrier Commander Dies at Met"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 26, 1965. Accessed October 22, 2019. "The admiral, was a native of Palmyra, N. J., retired from his college presidency in 1959 to a farm in Dogue, Va., where he lived with his wife, the former Myrtle Fest of Philadelphia, whome he married in 1916."</ref>
* [[Kelvin Harmon]] (born 1997), [[wide receiver]] for the [[Washington Commanders]] of the NFL<ref>Henry, Larry. [https://palmyrasun.com/phs-graduate-kelvin-harmon-excelling-for-north-carolina-state-football-d6aa0a42f14c "PHS graduate Kelvin Harmon excelling for North Carolina State Football"]{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''The Palmyra Sun'', September 20, 2017. Accessed October 28, 2018. "In 2015, Kelvin Harmon was a senior at Palmyra High School taking the football field for one final season before his high school graduation."</ref>
* [[Clarence B. Jones]] (born 1931), lawyer and former personal counsel, advisor, draft speech writer and close friend of [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]<ref>Johnson, Thomas. A. [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/29/archives/new-publisher-clarence-benjamin-jones.html?_r=0 "Man in the News"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 29, 1971. Accessed December 9, 2017. "When Mr. Jones was a boy the family moved to Palmyra, N. J., and he Went to Palmyra High School."</ref>
* [[Frank A. Mathews Jr.]] (1904–1964), represented {{ushr|New Jersey|4}} in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1945 to 1949<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000233 Frank Asbury Mathews Jr.], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed September 10, 2007.</ref>
* [[Quron Pratt]] (born 1991), [[Philadelphia Eagles]] wide receiver since 2014<ref>Barto, Tyler. [http://www.trentonian.com/sports/20140831/rutgers-grad-quron-pratt-palmyra-native-signs-to-eagles-practice-squad "Quron Pratt"], ''[[The Trentonian]]'', August 31, 2014. Accessed April 28, 2015. "Palmyra native and former Rutgers receiver Quron Pratt has agreed to terms to join the Eagles' practice squad, a source confirmed Sunday."</ref>
* [[A. Raymond Randolph]] (born 1943), [[United States federal judge|federal judge]] on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]] who was appointed to the court in 1990<ref>[http://dcchs.org/ArthurRRandolph/ArthurRaymondRandolph_Complete.pdf Oral History Project - Arthur Raymond Randolph], Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit. Accessed October 1, 2015. "Mr. Prettyman: And where did you grow up? You were born in Riverside. Did you stay there during your childhood? Judge Randolph: No, we never lived in Riverside. We lived in a town called Palmyra, New Jersey, for a while, which is where my grandmother and my great-uncle lived, and then moved in 1950 to what was then a very small rural town called Glendora."</ref> 
* [[Justin Sherin]] (born 1981), playwright, screenwriter and political analyst<ref>Shelly, Kevin C. [https://www.phillyvoice.com/channeling-dick-nixon-twitter/ "South Jersey native channels Dick Nixon on Twitter"], ''[[Philly Voice]]'', October 13, 2015. Accessed January 31, 2025. "Richard Nixon – at least a pitch-perfect digital reincarnation – lives on. And surprisingly, he’s from Palmyra in Burlington County.... Nixon lives on, at least in the personae of @dick_nixon, the Twitter account of South Jersey-born playwright Justin Sherin."</ref>
* [[Troy Singleton]] (born 1973), member of the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] since 2011<ref>Comegno, Carol. [https://www.proquest.com/docview/437444501 "Palmyra man will serve on Burlco bridge panel"], ''[[Courier-Post]]'', December 31, 2008. Accessed November 28, 2013. "The all-Republican county board of freeholders unanimously appointed Troy Singleton, 35, of Palmyra on Tuesday to the vacant Democratic seat on the three-member commission by a 5-0 vote."</ref>