Red Emmerson

Timber, lumber billionaire

Father, Curly, owned a lumber mill. Archie took Sierra Pacific public 1969, private again 4 years later. Bought 522,000 acres of Santa Fe Southern Pacific Railroad timberland with a $460 million loan in 1988. Today company owns nearly 2 million acres of timberland in California and Washington; nation's second-largest lumber producer by volume. Firm offered $45 million for bankrupt Pacific Lumber in July; outbid by the Gap's Fisher family. Wears jeans, drives pickup truck. Son Mark handles finances.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Business Positions

Sierra Pacific Industries U.S. timber company

• President

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

1 / 8

Boehner for Speaker Cmte

• 5 contributions · 77,500 USD (Dec 21 '11→Aug 27 '15)

Republican National Committee U.S. political committee that leads the Republican Party of the U.S., a/k/a The Grand Ol' Party/GOP

• 5 contributions · 72,000 USD ('98→'12)

National Republican Congressional Committee

• 4 contributions · 64,300 USD ('12→Aug 27 '15)

John McCain US Senator and Representative from Arizona

• 5 contributions · 38,100 USD ('08)

Senate Georgia Battleground Fund

• 1 contribution · 20,000 USD (Nov 23 '20)

Mitt Romney U.S. senator from Utah, former Massachusetts governor

• 4 contributions · 19,800 USD ('07→'12)

Dianne Feinstein Former US Senator from California, San Francisco mayor

• 11 contributions · 18,000 USD ('93→'12)

Walter William Herger US Representative from California

• 26 contributions · 16,850 USD ('90→'08)

John Boehner Republican US Representative from Ohio; majority leader

• 7 contributions · 15,600 USD ('11→Aug 27 '15)

American Forest & Paper Association Political Action Committee

• 4 contributions · 15,500 USD ('94→'07)

Holdings

Sierra Pacific Industries U.S. timber company

• Owner ('73→?)

Family

Mark Emmerson

• son