Roger Wellington Tubby (December 30, 1910 – January 14, 1991) was the seventh White House Press Secretary from 1952 to 1953 and served under President

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

Career

Roger Tubby born in

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, in 1910 and went to

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. He worked in

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, for the ''Bennington Banner''; Tubby was a reporter and then editor. His main achievement there was getting

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government for Bennington. Roger Tubby 1951

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,

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. 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 ichael 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

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. In 1953, John Foster Dulles asked him to come back to the State Department and be his Press Chief. Subsequently, in partnership with Jim

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Loeb bought the ''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', the

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'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

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when he was Governor. In 1956, he went out to campaign with the Adlai Stevenson staff, and in 1960 joined

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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

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; and for the last seven and one half years he was

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in Geneva, 1962–69. Tubby was Dean of the School of Professional Studies, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State.

Notes

External links

* Roger Wellington Tubby papers (MS 508). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

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