Preceded by first member Succeeded by riding dissolved Name Daniel Lang | Preceded by Ione Christensen Role Canadian Senator Political party Yukon Party Siblings Archie Lang | |
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Born April 3, 1948 (age 75)
Dawson Creek, British Columbia ( 1948-04-03 ) Party Conservative Party of Canada Office Canadian Senator since 2009 | ||
Other political
affiliations Conservative | ||
Hector Daniel Lang (born April 3, 1948) was a Canadian politician and a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate. He was appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate on January 2, 2009.
Political career
He was previously a Progressive Conservative member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Whitehorse Porter Creek East from 1978 to 1992. Prior to the creation of the legislative assembly in 1978, he served a term on the non-partisan Yukon Territorial Council from 1974 to 1978.
His brother Archie Lang was a cabinet minister in the Yukon prior retired from politics in 2011.
Lang was eligible to remain in the Senate until his 75th birthday in 2023 but in 2017 he announced that he was retiring early from the Senate in order to spend more time with his family.