Background
He was born in 1821 in Christiania as the son of jurist and politician Even Hanssen and his wife Barbara Abigael Lange. He had a younger brother Peter Nicolai Freberg Hansen who became a jurist like his father.
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Johan Hanssen
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Career
Johan Jørgen Lange Hanssen moved to Arendal and became director of an insurance company, as well as of the local savings bank. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1874, representing the urban constituency of Arendal og Grimstad. He served only one term.
In the 1865 census his household were registered as having at least three servants.
