Our History

75 Years

of Bringing the UN to the People and the People to the UN

National Organizations were invited by The United States Department Of State to provide consultants to The United States Delegation To The United Nations Conference On International Organization (UNCIO)

APRIL 25 TO JUNE 26, 1945, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

This conference consisted of delegates from 50 allied nations. Its purpose was to create and adopt a charter for a new organization, the United Nations Organization.

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt had died on April 12, 1945. Vice President Harry S. Truman became United States President, and the UNCIO conference was to commence April 25, 1945. United States delegates had not been appointed to the UNCIO conference and the new President had 13 days to appoint. He did so and additionally he had the State Department appoint US organizations to advise the US delegates. Forty-Two organizations were appointed:

  • American Section, International Chamber of Commerce
  • Chamber of Commerce of the United States
  • National Association of Manufacturers
  • National Foreign Trade Organization
  • American Bar Association
  • National Lawyers Guild
  • American Federation of Labor
  • Congress of Industrial Organizations
  • Railway Labor Executives Association
  • American Legion
  • American Veterans Committee
  • Disabled American Veterans of the World War
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
  • American Farm Bureau Federation
  • Farmers Union
  • National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
  • National Grange
  • American Association of University Women
  • General Federation of Women’s Clubs
  • National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc.
  • National League of Women Voters
  • Women’s Action Committee for Victory and Lasting Peace
  • American Jewish Committee
  • American Jewish Conference
  • Catholic Association for International Peace
  • Church Peace Union
  • Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America
  • National Catholic Welfare Conference
  • Americans United for World Organization Inc.
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • Foreign Policy Association
  • National Peace Conference
  • American Association for the United Nations (Commission to Study the Organization of Peace)
  • Kiwanis International
  • Lions International
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • National Exchange Club
  • Rotary International
  • American Council on Education
  • National Congress of Parent and Teachers
  • National Education Association

Those were the original member organizations, and a few are still involved in the U.S. Council of Organizations to this day.