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Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty: Quick Facts

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Date November 18, 1903 (Anniversary in 5 days)
Participants Panama • United States

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Canal Zone, Panama
John Hay
Phillippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
Black-and-white photo of Teddy Roosevelt over Panama Canal backdrop, flanked by Panama and U.S. flags with “or” and a question mark between them.
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Oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent showing Roosevelt standing with one hand on a wooden pedestal and the other on his hip, dressed in a dark suit.
Theodore Roosevelt
president of United States
Phillippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
French engineer
John Hay
John Hay
American government official and diplomat