| Roger Tubby | |
| Office: | United States Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Geneva |
| President: | Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Term Start: | October 18, 1967 |
| Term End: | September 24, 1969 |
| Predecessor: | Graham Martin |
| Successor: | Idar D. Rimestad |
| Office1: | 8th Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs |
| President1: | John F. Kennedy |
| Term Start1: | March 10, 1961 |
| Term End1: | April 1, 1962 |
| Predecessor1: | Andrew H. Berding |
| Successor1: | Robert Manning |
| Office2: | 7th White House Press Secretary |
| President2: | Harry S. Truman |
| Term Start2: | September 18, 1952 |
| Term End2: | January 20, 1953 |
| Predecessor2: | Joseph Short |
| Successor2: | James Hagerty |
| Birth Name: | Roger Wellington Tubby |
| Birth Date: | 30 December 1910 |
| Birth Place: | Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Children: | Suzanne Batra[1] |
| Office3: | 3rd Spokesperson for the United States Department of State |
| Term Start3: | 1945 |
| Term End3: | 1948 |
| Preceded3: | Michael J. McDermott |
| Succeeded3: | Lincoln White |
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 spokesperson of the United States Department of State.
Roger Tubby born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1910 and went to Yale University. He worked in Bennington, Vermont, for the Bennington Banner;[2] 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.
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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