Robert B. Pamplin, Jr.
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Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. is a businessman and philanthropist from the U.S. state of Oregon. He is the owner of the Pamplin Media Group, which publishes the Portland Tribune and the Sandy Post, among other Oregon newspapers. He is one of the backers of the effort to preserve Shaniko, Oregon, a former mining boomtown that is now considered a ghost town. He is the son of Robert B. Pamplin. In 1998, he was on the Forbes 400 list at $560 million.
Pamplin's philanthropic works include gifts to many Universities, including the Robert B. Pamplin Jr. School of Business at the University of Portland.
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- pamplin.org Robert B. Pamplin, Jr.'s website
- 2002 Willamette Week story about Pamplin and his business endeavors
- 2006 Willamette Week story about Pamplin's record cleaning up after mining of Ross Island
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