From 2000 to 2003, Mason was president of the church's Bountiful Utah Temple. As a young man, Mason served an LDS Church mission to Denmark. Before his appointment as a general authority, Mason served in the church as a bishop, stake president, and regional representative. In 1974, while serving as Church Commissioner for Health Services, Mason wrote a pamphlet for the church titled, "Attitudes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Toward Certain Medical Problems", which expresses the church's views on abortion, birth control, and homosexuality. Family life Mason married Marie Smith in 1952 in the Salt Lake Temple and they were the parents of seven children. Mason died on October 9, 2019. Notes References "Elder James O. Mason of the Seventy", Ensign, May 1994 External links American general authorities (LDS Church) American Mormon missionaries in Denmark Physicians from Utah Members of the Second Quorum of the Seventy (LDS Church) Harvard School of Public Health alumni 2019 deaths Politicians from Salt Lake City Surgeons General of the United States University of Utah School of Medicine alumni LGBT and Mormonism Regional representatives of the Twelve State cabinet secretaries of Utah 20th-century Mormon missionaries 1930 births United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps admirals Temple presidents and matrons (LDS Church) Latter Day Saints from Utah Latter Day Saints from Georgia (U.S. state) Latter Day Saints from Massachusetts Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Reagan administration personnel George H. W. Bush administration personnel Recipients of the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal Members of the National Academy of Medicine