Roger Tubby

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Roger Tubby
United States Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Geneva
In office October 18, 1967 – September 24, 1969
President	Lyndon B. 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
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
President	Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	Joseph Short
Succeeded by	James Hagerty
Personal details
Born	Roger Wellington Tubby (1910-12-30)December 30, 1910 Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	January 14, 1991(1991-01-14) (aged 80) Saranac Lake, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Yale University (BA)

Roger Wellington Tubby (December 30, 1910 – January 14, 1991) was the seventh

. From 1945 to 1948, he served as the spokesperson of the United States Department of State.

Career

Roger Tubby born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1910 and went to Yale University. He worked in Bennington, Vermont, for the Bennington Banner;^[1] 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

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

when he was Governor.

In 1956, he went out to campaign with the Adlai Stevenson staff, 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.

He later became Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs; and for the last seven and one half years he was Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva, 1962–69. Tubby was Dean of the School of Professional Studies, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State.

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External links

• Roger Wellington Tubby papers (MS 508). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [1]

• Roger Tubby
• Roger Tubby at Find a Grave

Political offices
Preceded by Joseph Short	White House Press Secretary 1952–1953	Succeeded by James Hagerty
Preceded by Andrew H. Berding	Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs 1961–1962	Succeeded by Robert Manning
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Graham Martin	United States Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Geneva 1967–1969	Succeeded by Idar D. Rimestad