Oregon Businesspeople - Neil Goldschmidt, Tom Peterson, Henry Pittock, Goli Ameri, Frank Dekum, Phil Knight, Sho Dozono, Cyrus A. Dolph (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 256. Not illustrated. Chapters: Neil Goldschmidt, Tom Peterson, Henry Pittock, Goli Ameri, Frank Dekum, Phil Knight, Sho Dozono, Cyrus A. Dolph, Harry V. Gates, Bill Bowerman, Henry Failing, Gordon Faber, George Washington Weidler, Thomas B. Kay, Robert Crouch Kinney, Julius Meier, Donald Macleay, George A. Steel, Edward Schulmerich, William H. Wehrung, Peggy Fowler, Lewis A. Mcarthur, Chuck Riley, Frank Morse, Larry George, Tom Bruggere, John West, Peter J. Stadelman, Jeri Ellsworth, Jeffrey Grayson, Brian Mcmenamin, Joseph K. Gill, Henry Weinhard, Robert B. Pamplin, Les Schwab, Samuel Hill, Del Yocam, Henry Waldo Coe, Monford Orloff, Andrew Wiederhorn, Harry Glickman, Howard Vollum, Leif Hansen, William Mccormick, Louis Gerlinger, Sr., Merritt Paulson, George T. Gerlinger, C. Kyle Ranson, Carl Gerlinger, Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Joseph S. Ruckle, Bruce Brenn, Kevin Cameron, Robert W. Lundeen, Charles Swindells, Glenn Jackson, Fred G. Meyer, Mark Parker, Jesse Edwards, Ben Selling, Frederick Leadbetter, Charles Samuel Jackson. Excerpt: Neil Edward Goldschmidt (born June 16, 1940) is an American businessman and former Democratic politician from Oregon who held local, state, and federal offices over three decades. Goldschmidt was widely considered the most influential figure in Oregon politics, both as an elected public official and as a lobbyist and policy consultant, until he was revealed to have sexually abused an underage girl over a period of three years, when she was 14 to 17 years old, during his first term as Mayor of Portland, when he was in his mid 30s. Goldschmidt was elected to the Portland City Council in 1970, and then as mayor of Portland in 1972, becoming the youngest mayor of any major American city. He promoted the revitalization of Downtown Portland, and was influential on Portland-area transportation policy, par...