section_path: Presidents/Henri de Baillet-Latour (1925–1942)
section_name: Henri de Baillet-Latour (1925–1942)
paragraph_text: Henri de Baillet-Latour (1925–1942)
  
  Henri, Comte de Baillet-Latour was elected IOC president in 1925, after the founder of the modern Olympic Movement, Baron de Coubertin, stepped down from the post to become honorary president. The Belgian Comte led the IOC until his death in 1942, when he was succeeded by his vice-president J. Sigfrid Edström.