Nicholas Roosevelt (June 12, 1893 – February 16, 1982)[1] was an American diplomat and journalist.

[2] Brought up in Oyster Bay, New York, he graduated from Harvard University in 1914.

[3] He was an attaché at the American Embassy in Paris, secretary to the American mission to Spain in 1916 and 17, vice-governor of the Philippine Islands in 1930, and U.S. minister to Hungary from 1930 to 1933.

[4][6] A prolific author, his autobiography, A Front Row Seat (1953), offers a critical view of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a distant cousin, and an inside view of the New York Times.

Her sister, Dorothy Gates, was the first wife of astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky.