Gazette of the United States
The Gazette of the United States was an early American newspaper, first issued semiweekly in New York on April 15, 1789, but moving the next year to Philadelphia when the nation's capital moved there the next year. It was friendly to the Federalist Party. Its founder, John Fenno, intended it to unify the country under its new government. As the leading Federalist newspaper of its time, it praised the Washington and Adams administrations and their policies. Its Federalist sponsors, chiefly Alexander Hamilton, granted it substantial funding; because some of it was directly from the government, the Gazette is considered to have been semi-official. The influence of the newspaper inspired the creation of the National Gazette and the Philadelphia Aurora, rival newspapers for the Democratic-Republicans.
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| Type | Semiweekly newspaper (1789–1793); daily (1793–1818) |
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| Founder(s) | John Fenno |
| Editor | John Fenno (1789–1798) John Ward Fenno with Joseph Dennie (1798–1800) Caleb P. Wayne (1800–1801) Enos Bronson (1801–1804) Several others (1804–1818) |
| Founded | April 15, 1789 |
| Political alignment | Federalist |
| Ceased publication | March 7, 1818 |
| City | New York (1789–1791); Philadelphia (1791–1818) |
| Country | United States |
| Readership | Americans nationwide |
| ISSN | 2474-0942 |
| OCLC number | 9529277 |
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Throughout its history, the Gazette was renamed multiple times. Starting from 1798, the ownership and editorship of Fenno's newspaper passed between multiple people. The influence of the newspaper declined around this time, but it continued to print until March 7, 1818, consolidating into another newspaper.