Daniel Lang (b. 1948)
Dan Lang was born in Dawson Creek. British Columbia. He moved to the Yukon in 1958 when his father, Hector Lang, started work on the Whitehorse hydroelectric dam.1) Dan served a term on the non-partisan Yukon Territorial Council from 1974 to 1978. He represented the district of Whitehorse Porter Creek East as a Progressive Conservative member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1992. He was the first person to represent the riding, which was dissolved after his term.2) He ran for Mayor of Whitehorse in 1994 but was defeated by Kathy Watson.3)
In 2008, Danny Lang was the vice-chair of the Yukon College board of governors and contributed to many community organisations.4)
Lang was appointed a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada in 2009.5) He succeeded Liberal senator Ione Christensen. Lang worked on two committees of the Senate of Canada: the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples and the Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources. Senator Lang was also a member of the BC-Yukon caucus of the government.6) He was eligible to remain a Senator until 2023 but announced in 2017 that he was retiring early to spend more time with his family.7)