Roger Tubby

Roger Wellington Tubby (December 30, 1910 – January 14, 1991) was the seventh White House Press Secretary from 1952 to 1953 and served under President Harry Truman. From 1945 to 1948, he served as the spokesman of the United States Department of State.

Career

Roger Tubby born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1910 and went to Yale University. He was a reporter and then editor for the Bennington Banner Bennington, Vermont.

During World War II, Tubby worked for the Board of Economic Warfare, and when that became the Foreign Economic Administration, a combination of BEW and Lend-Lease, he became assistant to the administrator, Leo Crowley. Subsequently, he went to the Department of Commerce as Director of Information of the Office of International Trade; and after that to the Department of State in 1946 with Michael J. McDermott, who was then the chief spokesman of the Department of State.

In 1950, Tubby went to the White House as the assistant White House press secretary under Joseph Short. In 1953, John Foster Dulles asked him to come back to the State Department to be his Press Chief. Subsequently, in partnership with James Loeb, Tubby bought the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, a daily newspaper based in Saranac Lake, where he was co-publisher, editor, and jack-of-all-trades. Tubby later became president of the Adirondack Park Association, which covers all the communities of in the northeast corner of New York; he was also an advisor to the Governor on natural resources and conservation. For a short time, Tubby worked with Averell Harriman when he was Governor of New York.

In 1956, Tubby campaigned for Adlai Stevenson, and in 1960 joined John F. Kennedy at the Los Angeles convention and stayed with the Kennedy team through the election, serving as Director of Press Relations for the Democratic National Committee.

Tubby served President Kennedy as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1961 to 1962; and was Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva from 1962 to 1969. Tubby was Dean of the School of Professional Studies, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State.

Tubby kept a diary of his time at the White House. Before his death, he donated his personal papers to Yale University. According to the university archives, "The Roger W. Tubby Papers consist of voluminous personal diaries, as well as correspondence, writings, photographs, press releases, and newspaper clippings, ranging over the period 1925-83." The collection will not be available for research until 2050.