Teodoro R. Yangco
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Teodoro Rafael Yangco (November 9, 1861 – April 20, 1939) was a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands. Born in San Antonio in the Province of Zambales, Yangco attended Ateneo de Manila University, and graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 1881. He pursued a commercial course in London, England, from 1882 to 1886. Yangco was involved in the construction and repair of vessels, the operation of a line of ferries, and in mercantile pursuits, and he was the director of a life insurance company. He was interested in various commercial and charitable organizations in Manila. Elected as a Nationalist Resident Commissioner to the United States, he served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1920. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1920, and resumed his former business activities in Manila, until his death in 1939. He is buried in the Cementerio del Norte.
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