The ''Phoenix Gazette'' was a newspaper published in

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, United States. It was founded in 1881, and was known in its early years as the ''Phoenix Evening Gazette''. In 1889, it was purchased by Samuel F. Webb, who at the time was a member of the

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, as the Councilor from

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, the upper house of the legislature. In 1930 it was purchased by Charles Stauffer and W. Wesley Knorpp, the owner of its one-time rival ''

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''. Both papers were subsequently acquired by

Eugene C. Pulliam Eugene Collins Pulliam (May 3, 1889 – June 23, 1975) was an American newspaper publisher and businessman who was the founder and president of Central Newspapers Inc., a media holding company. During his sixty-three years as a newspaper publish ...

, in 1946. Under Pulliam's management, it continued to operate as the main evening paper for the Phoenix area for several decades. During the 1970s and 1980s it was published weekday and Saturday afternoons. In August 1995, the staffs of the ''Republic'' and the ''Gazette'' merged, and the ''Gazette'' mostly became an afternoon edition of the ''Republic'' with a few updates. Eventually the ''Gazettes circulation declined and it ceased publication in January 1997.

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