Johan Richard Krogness
Johan Richard Krogness was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.
He was born in Trondhjem. He took the examen artium in 1835, but quit higher education after taking only one exam. He was a merchant in Trondhjem for some years before settling at the manor Karlslyst in Hommelvigen, where he was a ship-owner and ran a brickworks.
He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1854, and was re-elected in 1857, 1859, 1862, 1865, 1868 and 1871, representing the rural constituency of Søndre Trondhjems Amt. He died in February 1872 from "weakness of the chest".
His half-sister Ingeborg Krogness was the mother of Erik Vullum.
