The ''Green Bay Intelligencer'' was Wisconsin’s first newspaper. Based in

Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea lev ...

, it was founded by businessman John V. Suydam, with the first issue published on December 11, 1833. Albert Gallatin Ellis joined the paper in 1834. In 1834, Ellis, and subsequently the ''Green-Bay Intelligencer'', supported the campaign of local judge James Duane Doty. As a result, opponents of Doty formed their own newspaper. The newspaper continued with several suspensions until June 1835, at which point Ellis entered a partnership with C. C. Arndt, creating the new partnership, Ellis & Arndt. In 1837 the ''Green-Bay Intelligencer'' was sold to Christopher Sholes, who moved the newspaper to Southport, Wisconsin (now Kenosha).

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*"Green Bay Home of First Newspaper", ''Milwaukee Free Press'', 1910-07-17 Pre-statehood history of Wisconsin Mass media in Green Bay, Wisconsin Defunct newspapers published in Wisconsin Publications established in 1833 {{Wisconsin-stub