A resident of West Chester, Ohio, Lang is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University.
"[4] In 2017, state representative Margaret Conditt unexpectedly announced she was resigning in the middle of her fourth term to spend more time with family, leaving Ohio House Republicans with the task of appointing her replacement.
[citation needed] In the state legislature, Lang served on the following committees: Community and Family Advancement, Criminal Justice, Finance, and Insurance.
[9] During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, Lang avoided masks and publicly announced he was opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine.
[10] In April 2020, he won over Candice Keller and Lee Wong in a primary for Republicans over Ohio's 4th Senate district, with predictions he would face Democrat Kathy Wyenandt in November 2020, who he had defeated in 2018.
[1] Between July 1, 2019 and June 11, 2020, he spent $450,000 on his campaign, "nearly three times as much as his two opponents combined" for the GOP nomination.
By January 28, 2021, he had said that Larry Householder had opposed his plan to make "Ohio the most business-friendly state in the country," with Lang noting that Householder felt that "you can't put business first (which is) just a fundamental disagreement in philosophy.
[1] In June 2021, he stated as Ohio Senator of West Chester that in the Finance Committee his focus would be on budget discussions, but that he ""would review any future legislation through the lens of protecting the 2nd Amendment rights," speaking out in favor of harsher punishments for crime but lessening gun control laws, so as not to make it "tougher on the good guys.