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Claudio Teehankee (Claudio Ong Teehankee) was born on 18 April, 1918 in Binondo, Manila, Philippine Islands, is a Chief Justice of the Philippines from 1987 to 1988. Discover Claudio Teehankee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
| Popular As |
Claudio Ong Teehankee |
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| Age |
71 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
| Born |
18 April, 1918 |
| Birthday |
18 April |
| Birthplace |
Binondo, Manila, Philippine Islands |
| Date of death |
27 November, 1989 |
| Died Place |
New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality |
Philippines
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Claudio Teehankee Height, Weight & Measurements
At 71 years old, Claudio Teehankee height not available right now. We will update Claudio Teehankee's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Claudio Teehankee's Wife?
His wife is Pilar Angeles Duldulao Javier-Teehankee (m. 1939)
| Family |
| Parents |
José Tee Han Kee (father; deceased) Julia Sangroniz Ong (mother; deceased) |
| Wife |
Pilar Angeles Duldulao Javier-Teehankee (m. 1939) |
| Sibling |
Not Available |
| Children |
9 (including Claudio, Jr. and Manuel) |
Claudio Teehankee Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Claudio Teehankee worth at the age of 71 years old? Claudio Teehankee’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Philippines. We have estimated Claudio Teehankee's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Timeline
His father, José Tee Han Kee, immigrated to the Philippines in 1901 from Fujian province in China.
He was a close associate and friend of Sun Yat-Sen, and was active in the struggle to liberate China from the Qing dynasty.
Dr. Tee Han Kee later became the founding director of Chinese General Hospital.
Claudio "Dingdong" Ong Teehankee, CCLH (April 18, 1918 – November 27, 1989) was the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1987 to 1988.
He was also the most senior associate justice and chairman of the First Division of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
Teehankee was born on April 18, 1918, in Manila, Philippines as the seventh child of Dr. Tee Han Kee and Julia Ong, an ethnic Chinese born in the Philippines.
He received his A.B. summa cum laude in 1938 and LL.B. with the only summa cum laude in the school as part of the second batch in 1940 at the Ateneo de Manila.
He also garnered first place in the 1940 bar examination with an average of 94.35 percent.
Claudio learned to write in fluent Chinese, and contributed multiple articles later on for the Chinese-language newspaper The Fookien Times Yearbook from 1966 to 1968.
Teehankee was Marcos's lawyer in the libel case regarding the movie, Iginuhit ng Tadhana, then became Secretary of Justice under the Marcos administration in 1967 before being appointed as associate justice in 1968.
He was known as the court's "activist" justice because of his dissenting opinions in many vital cases affecting the Marcos administration.
He was the lone dissenter in many cases, such as the High Tribunal's decision upholding the constitutionality of the Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980.
He also dissented in policies which would seem to curtail the basic liberties of people.
For a time, Teehankee and Justice Cecilia Muñoz-Palma would dissent together.
After Muñoz-Palma's retirement, he was joined by Associate Justice Vicente Abad Santos in dissenting.
Like Teehankee, his son Manuel Antonio topped the bar in 1983 and also became a diplomat.
He was also the uncle of Political Science professor Julio C. Teehankee.
It was this activism that made Marcos 'by-pass' him twice for the position of Chief Justice (the most senior associate justice is most likely to succeed after the retirement of the Chief Justice) in 1985.
It was after the removal of Marcos that he was appointed Chief Justice by Corazon Aquino in 1987.
After his retirement, he was appointed as the Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations, where he died of cancer in Manhattan, New York on November 27, 1989, at the age of 71.
He is interred at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Teehankee was married to Pilar D. Javier with whom he had nine children.
His son Claudio Jr. would be imprisoned for homicide in the early 1990s.
The death penalty was reinstated because of concurrent debates after reactions to the public sentence were mixed.
"Res Gestae: A Brief History of the Supreme Court".
