The Honourable Hector Daniel Lang |
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Senator from Yukon | |
Assumed office January 2, 2009 |
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Nominated by | Stephen Harper |
Appointed by | Michaëlle Jean |
Preceded by | Ione Christensen |
MLA for Whitehorse Porter Creek East | |
In office 1978–1992 |
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Preceded by | first member |
Succeeded by | riding dissolved |
Personal details | |
Born |
Dawson Creek, British Columbia |
April 3, 1948
Political party | Yukon Party |
Other political affiliations |
Conservative |
Hector Daniel Lang (born April 3, 1948) is 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.
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.