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  • Richard L. Kohnstamm (1926-2006)

    Richard L. Kohnstamm was the president and area operator of Timberline Lodge and Ski Area from 1955 until 1992, when he turned the operation over …

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  • Richard L. Wendt (1931-2010)

    Richard L. Wendt, of Klamath Falls, was a founder of JELD-WEN, Inc., one of Oregon’s biggest companies. By the 1990s, the company was the largest …

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  • Richard Neuberger (1912-1960)

    When he was elected to the United States Senate in 1954, Richard Neuberger had been at the center of journalistic excellence in the Pacific Northwest …

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  • Robert Newell (1807–1869)

    In 1840, after more than a decade in the Rocky Mountain fur trade, Robert Newell headed to the Oregon Country. Getting there, he led the …

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  • Robert Adams (1937-)

    Robert Adams’s photographs of the American West are incisive views of industrial expansion and regional transformation. Based in Astoria, Adams charts in his work the …

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  • Robert C. Belloni (1919–1999)

    Robert C. Belloni was a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon from 1967 to 1999. His ruling in United …

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  • Robert Deniston Hume (1845-1908)

    Love him or hate him, Robert Deniston Hume, called R.D. for short, was a compelling figure in Oregon history. Born in 1845 into a family …

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  • Robert Freeman Smith (1931–2020)

    Bob Smith was a Republican who served in the U.S. Congress, representing Oregon’s Second District from 1983 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999. He …

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  • Robert Gray (1755–1806)

    On May 11, 1792, Robert Gray, the first American to circumnavigate the world (1787-1790), sailed the Columbia Rediviva into the Columbia River, the first …

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  • Robert L. Thompson and TVA Architects

    Robert Thompson, FAIA (Fellow of the American Institute of Architects), is founding partner of the Portland firm TVA Architects. He was responsible for the design …

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