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♂ Knut Lang
aliasKnut Lang
Record
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Danish-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Northwest Territories 2 0 2
Birth 21 July 1895 → 128 years + 9 months ago
Lived 68 years + 8 months
First mandate 19 August 1957 → 66 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 62 years
Death 13 April 1964 → 60 years ago
Exit → Death 14 days after 30 March 1964
Special notes
None
 
Knut Lang (1895–1964) 200x220
© Photo 1926–34 Northwest Territories Archives — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Northwest Territories 6 7 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 1,180 Votes: 757 Participation: 64.15% Candidacies: 4
Territorial
3		 Northwest Territories
19 August 1957
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Majority
ID: 30669(F) — 22 Jan 2023 16:19 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
62
IND
 1/4 461 61.80% +325 Loser:
IND
 136 18.23% Thomas Njootli

Service: 3 years 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,266 Votes: 541 Participation: 42.73% Candidacies: 2
Territorial
4		 Northwest Territories
19 September 1960
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Majority
ID: 30673(F) — 22 Jan 2023 16:07 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
65
IND
 1/2 411 78.14% +296 Loser:
IND
 115 21.86% Stanley S. Mackie

Service: 3 years 6 months 11 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,594 Votes: 1,217 Participation: 76.35% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
5		 Northwest Territories
31 March 1964
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Majority
ID: 30677(F) — 22 Jan 2023 15:43 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
68		 Successor:
IND
 569 47.77% Lyle R. Trimble

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
CBC News North (7 May 2007), Aklavik band seeks historic status for Dane's trading post		 31 Dec 2023
EN Non-standard link
Government of the Northwest Territories, NWT Archives: Lang, Knut		 31 Dec 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 31 Dec 2023 14:01 (but data presented dynamically)

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