Roosevelt Campobello International Park
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
was stricken with poliomyelitis
Poliomyelitis
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at the age of 39. The park occupies most of the southern end of Campobello Island, New Brunswick
Campobello Island, New Brunswick
Campobello Island is a Canadian island located at the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay, adjacent to the entrance to Cobscook Bay, and within the Bay of Fundy...
, just offshore of Lubec, Maine
Lubec, Maine
Lubec is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,652 at the 2000 census. Lubec is the easternmost town in the contiguous United States . However, the Aleutian Islands in Alaska extend into the eastern hemisphere, and if territories are included, Point Udall in the...
. The cottage, built in the Shingle Style and completed in 1897, was designed by Willard T. Sears
Willard T. Sears
Willard Thomas Sears was a prominent New England architect of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who worked primarily in the Gothic Revival and Renaissance Revival styles....
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Administrative history
The park is owned and administered by the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission, created by international treaty signed by Governor GeneralGovernor General of Canada
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Georges Vanier
Georges Vanier
Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 19th since Canadian Confederation....
, Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Canada
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Lester B. Pearson
Lester B. Pearson
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis...
, and President Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...
on January 22, 1964. The park was established on July 7, 1964. Both countries provide financial support to the park. It is an affiliated area of the National Park Service
National Park Service
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(U.S.) and Parks Canada
Parks Canada
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Charter members of the board of the international commission included U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr, and Lubec, Mainer Sumner T. Pike.