Following his military service , Lundquist attended the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco , California . The organizers of the 1945 conference wanted an insignia that could be made into a pin to identify delegates . United States Secretary of State Edward Stettinius , Jr. was chairman of the U.S. delegation , and realized that a temporary design might become the permanent symbol of the United Nations . He formed a committee headed by Lundquist that developed a design consisting of a world map surrounded by leaves from a design created by Donal McLaughlin
United Nations Conference on International Organization
United Nations Conference on International Organization
Oliver Lincoln Lundquist