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Houston Benge Teehee was an American lawyer and politician from Oklahoma most known for serving as Register of the Treasury from 1915 to 1919. Teehee was from a prominent Cherokee family,with his father serving in all three branches of the Cherokee Nation's government. Before and after statehood,he was elected to positions in city government in Tahlequah,Oklahoma,between 1902 and 1910 when he was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives,where he would serve two terms. After serving as Register of the Treasury he returned to Oklahoma and continued to practice law,until he was appointed assistant attorney general in 1926;in 1927,he was appointed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court Commission. He retired from political office after his Commissioner term expired in 1930.
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