He was a knight grand cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Born in Rome to parents from the Marche, Umberto Tupini was Minister of Grace and Justice in the Bonomi II Cabinet (1944) and in the Bonomi III Cabinet (1944–1945).

He was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 among the ranks of the Christian Democracy Within the party he joined the De Gasperi's faction, which then took the name of "Popular politics".

His appointment was preparatory to the organization of the Rome Olympics, set in August 1960.

On 15 June 1960 he announced that the censorship against all films with "scandalous, negative subjects for the formation of Italian civil conscience" would be drastic, referring to La dolce vita by Federico Fellini.