Fernando, Count de Vallelano was a high ranking Spanish politician who served as Permanent Under-Secretary of Education (1920-32), Mayor of Madrid (1924-28), State Councillor (1945-47), and he was appointed Minister of Public Works in 1952. In sports he was interested in alpinism, fencing, riding, and shooting. Count de Vallelano was co-opted onto the IOC in April 1931 but had a less than stellar term on the Committee. Of 18 sessions held during his tenure he attended only the first one, and in July 1952 he was decommissioned because of his failure to attend Sessions.