SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mormon leader Bruce Porter, a member of one of the faith’s governing bodies, has died of a pulmonary infection.
Porter, a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was 64 when he died Wednesday.
Church spokesman Eric Hawkins says Porter was released in December from his assignment as President of the church’s Europe East Area and assigned to serve at the church headquarters in Salt Lake City.
Porter was a professor of political science at Brigham Young University and was a research fellow at Harvard before joining the General Authority - a term for any of the senior leaders of the LDS church.
He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Sept. 18, 1952, and leaves his wife Susan and four children.
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