Johan Andreas Kraft (25 March 1808 – 1896) was a Norwegian physician and politician. He served as a deputy representative to the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years bas ...

in the term 1862–1864, representing the urban constituency of

Flekkefjord is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Flekkefjord. The villages of Sira, Gyland, Rasvåg, Kirkehavn, and Åna-Sira are lo ...

. He sat through only one term. He was mayor of Flekkefjord in 1842, 1858 and 1859. He worked as a physician in Flekkefjord from 1834, and remained there for fifty years. He was a founder of the

Norwegian Medical Society The Norwegian Medical Society ( no, Det norske medicinske Selskab, la, Societas Medica Norvegica) is a medical organisation in Norway. It has its roots in an informal group created in 1826, which subscribed to and shared foreign medical journa ...

, and an honorary member from 1883. Together with Fredrikke Christiane Weltzin (1819–1882) he had the daughter Christiane Marie Kraft, born 1840, who was married to engineer Carl Dahl until her death in 1864. Kraft died in 1896.

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1808 births 1896 deaths Deputy members of the Storting Mayors of places in Vest-Agder 19th-century Norwegian physicians People from Flekkefjord {{Norway-politician-1800s-stub