Joseph Palmer II (1914–1994), American foreign service officer and ambassador
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Joseph B. Palmer (1825–1890), American lawyer, legislator, and Confederate general in the American Civil War
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Joseph Palmer (1716–88), an American general during the American Revolutionary War, was born here; as was John Phillips (1835–97), the founder of the Aller Vale Pottery in Kingskerswell.