Houston Benge Teehee (sometimes spelled Tehee) (October 14 or 31, 1874 – November 19, 1953) was an American lawyer and politician from Oklahoma most known for serving as Register of the Treasury from 1915 to 1919.
Teehee[b] was born in the town of Muldrow, in the Cherokee Nation[5] (modern-day Oklahoma) on October 14 or 31, 1874.
His mother was Rhoda Benge, who died in 1886, when she was thirty-nine;[8] at the time, Teehee was twelve.
[7] Teehee attended the Cherokee Male Seminary[9] in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and afterward spent one year at Fort Worth University.
[8] In 1910, Teehee successfully petitioned the Secretary of the Interior to remove his guardianship restriction for being Native American.
[14] As Register, Teehee personally signed so many Liberty Bonds that he experienced repetitive strain injury, permanently damaging his hand and arm.
[8] He served as an assistant attorney general from 1926 until his appointment to the Oklahoma Supreme Court Commission's First Judicial District on May 28, 1927.