Jim Lange

James John "Jim" Lange (August 15, 1932 – February 25, 2014) was an American game show host and disc jockey. He was known to listeners in the San Francisco and Los Angeles radio markets with stints at several stations in both markets, racking up over 45 years on the air. Lange was also known to television viewers as the host of several game shows, including The Dating Game.

Early career

Lange began his radio broadcasting career in the Twin Cities after winning an audition as a teenager. He graduated from St. Thomas Academy high school, going on to the University of Minnesota on a scholarship from the Evans Scholars Foundation. After graduating from the University of Minnesota and serving in the Marines, Lange moved to San Francisco. After making his Bay Area broadcast debut as "The All-Night Mayor" on KGO, he moved to afternoons on KSFO in 1960.

Game shows

Lange's network television career began in San Francisco with The Ford Show in 1962, where he was the announcer for and sidekick to host Tennessee Ernie Ford. Three years later he would sign on to host The Dating Game. While still on-air at KSFO, he commuted to Los Angeles to tape the TV program.

Jim Lange (cartoonist)

James Jacob Lange (August 15, 1926 – April 16, 2009) was an American cartoonist who worked for The Oklahoman for 58 years and produced over 19,000 cartoons.

Born in 1926, Lange originally grew up in Minnesota until he moved to Iowa where he joined the U.S. Air Force during World War II. It was in Iowa where he meet his future wife, Helen Johnstone. She convinced him to move to Oklahoma where he later got a job as an editorial cartoonist. He arranged his contract with newspaper mogul Edward Gaylord. He started work for The Oklahoman on October 1, 1950. His first cartoon featured Governor Roy Turner.

Lange co-founded the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and served as its President during the 1980s. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1993.

Lange's work was collected in a 1994 collection published by The Oklahoman. He was well known for his frequent use of an everyman character called "Mr. Voter" or "John Q. Public", described in an Oklahoman editorial as "bespectacled, mustachioed, fedora-wearing". In 2006 the Oklahoma State Senate voted to make this character the "state's official editorial cartoon."