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, Zambales, Yangco attended Ateneo de Manila University, and graduated from the University of Santo Tomás in 1881. He pursued a commercial course in London 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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