David M. Mason (born 1957) was nominated to the Federal Election Commission by President Bill Clinton on March 4, 1998 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30, 1998.

[2][3] Prior to his appointment, Mason was Senior Fellow in Congressional Studies at the Heritage Foundation.

Mason served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, where he managed the Pentagon’s relations with the U.S. House of Representatives.

He was active as a staffer and volunteer in numerous Congressional, Senate, Gubernatorial and Presidential campaigns, and was himself the Republican nominee for the Virginia House of Delegates in the 48th District in 1982, who ended up losing in the general election to his opponent Mary Marshall.

He was active in political and community affairs in northern Virginia and in the home education movement nationally.