Roger Tubby

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.

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.

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.

Tubby was Dean of the School of Professional Studies, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State.

Assistant Press Secretary Roger Tubby (Profile) on March 15, 1951 at President Truman’s at his vacation residence in Key West , Florida