Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. is a businessman and philanthropist from the U.S. state of Oregon. He is the owner of a number of businesses in and around Portland, Oregon and across the United States. In 2001, he was reported to be the third-wealthiest person in Oregon.[1]
His holdings include textile company Mount Vernon Mills[1] and Ross Island Sand and Gravel, a concrete and asphalt company.[2] He is also the founder and senior pastor of Christ Community Church in Lake Oswego.[2]
Pamplin owns the Pamplin Media Group, which publishes the Portland Tribune and the Sandy Post, among other Oregon newspapers, and also owns several radio stations (including Portland's KPAM). From 1995 until 2001 Pamplin owned a Christian record label, Pamplin Music.
He is one of the backers of the effort to preserve Shaniko, Oregon, a former mining boomtown that is now considered a ghost town.[3]
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[4] at the University of Portland, and the R.B. Pamplin College of Business (jointly named for his father as well) at Virginia Tech.