Roger Tubby | |
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United States Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Geneva | |
In office October 18, 1967 – September 24, 1969 |
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President |
Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon |
Preceded by | Graham Martin |
Succeeded by | Idar D. Rimestad |
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs | |
In office March 10, 1961 – April 1, 1962 |
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President | John F. Kennedy |
Preceded by | Andrew H. Berding |
Succeeded by | Robert Manning |
7th White House Press Secretary | |
In office September 18, 1952 – January 20, 1953 |
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President | Harry Truman |
Preceded by | Joseph Short |
Succeeded by | James Hagerty |
Personal details | |
Born |
Roger Wellington Tubby December 30, 1910 Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | January 14, 1991 Saranac Lake, New York, U.S. |
(aged 80)
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Yale University (BA) |
Roger Wellington Tubby (December 30, 1910 – January 14, 1991) was White House Press Secretary from 1952 to 1953 and served under President Harry Truman.
Roger Tubby born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1910 and went to Yale University. He worked in Bennington, Vermont, for the Bennington Banner; Tubby was a reporter and then editor. His main achievement there was getting town manager government for Bennington.
During the war, he was in 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 Mike [Michael J.] McDermott, who was then the chief spokesman of the Department of State and had been for a great many years before.
In 1950, he 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 and be his Press Chief. Subsequently, in partnership with Jim [James] Loeb bought the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the Adirondack Park's only daily newspaper based in Saranac Lake, where he was co-publisher-editor, jack-of-all-trades, and became president of the Adirondack Park Association, an association that covers all the communities of about a fifth of New York State, in the northeast corner; and advisor to the Governor on natural resources and conservation. For a short time, he worked with Averell Harriman when he was Governor.