Alexander Stenson Palmer (c.1825 – 8 December 1901) was a banker and politician in colonial Australia, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
[1] Palmer arrived in Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land) as a boy in 1838, and joining the Bank of Australasia was promoted to the branch in Adelaide.
[2] In 1848, gold having been found in the Sierra Nevada, Palmer headed there and mined with varied success.
Palmer resigned his seat in July 1857; he unsuccessfully stood for Castlemaine Boroughs again in 1858, and Maryborough 1861.
[1] Palmer married Susan Georgina Marianne Fereday in George Town, Tasmania in 1861.