''The Lebanon Patriot'', now defunct, was an American newspaper published weekly at

Lebanon, Ohio Lebanon is a city in and the county seat of Warren County, Ohio, United States. The population was 20,841 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. History Lebanon is in the Symmes Purchase. The first European settler ...

, the seat of

Warren County Warren County is the name of fourteen counties in the USA. Some are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War: * Warren County, Georgia * Warren County, Illinois * Warren County ...

. The paper was founded by General Durbin Ward as a Democratic paper and first published on January 16, 1868. Warren County being ardently Republican, the paper was to take the place of the previous Democratic paper in the county, the ''Democratic Citizen'', which was destroyed by a mob at the outbreak of the

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. Ward sold the paper to Edward Warwick who sold it to A. A. Roland (born February 11, 1853) in April 1878. Circa 1883 it was owned and edited by Mary V. Proctor Wilson. The paper was last issued in December 1936 when it merged with '' The Western Star'', another weekly in Lebanon. The combined paper was published as ''The Western Star and Lebanon Patriot'' from January 7, 1937, to June 30, 1938.

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database with information from the ''History of Warren County, Ohio'' (Chicago, Illinois: W.H. Beers, 1883) and ''The Centennial Atlas and History of Warren County, Ohio'' (Lebanon, Ohio: The Centennial Atlas Association, 1903). {{DEFAULTSORT:Lebanon Patriot, The Defunct newspapers published in Ohio Mass media in Warren County, Ohio