<P> The New York Post, established on November 16, 1801, as the New - York Evening Post, describes itself as the nation's oldest continuously published daily newspaper . The Providence Journal, which began daily publication on July 21, 1829, also bills itself as the nation's oldest continuously published daily newspaper because the New York Post halted publication during strikes in 1958 and 1978 . The Hartford Courant, believed to be the oldest continuously published newspaper, was founded in 1764 as a semi-weekly paper; it did not publish daily until 1836 . The New Hampshire Gazette, which has trademarked its claim of being The Nation's Oldest Newspaper, was founded in 1756 as a weekly . Since the 1890s it has been published only on weekends . </P> <P> The Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US $10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the New - York Evening Post, a broadsheet . Hamilton's co-investors included other New York members of the Federalist Party, such as Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott, who were dismayed by the election of Thomas Jefferson as U.S. President and the rise in popularity of the Democratic - Republican Party . The meeting at which Hamilton first recruited investors for the new paper took place in the then - country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion . Hamilton chose William Coleman as his first editor . </P> <P> The most famous 19th - century New - York Evening Post editor was the poet and abolitionist William Cullen Bryant . So well respected was New - York Evening Post under Bryant's editorship, it received praise from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, in 1864 . </P> <P> In the summer of 1829, Bryant invited William Leggett, the Locofoco Democrat, to write for the paper . There, in addition to literary and drama reviews, Leggett began to write political editorials . Leggett's classical liberal philosophy entailed a fierce opposition to central banking, a support for voluntary labor unions, and a dedication to laissez - faire economics . He was a member of the Equal Rights Party . Leggett became a co-owner and editor at Post in 1831, eventually working as sole editor of the newspaper while Bryant traveled in Europe in 1834 through 1835 . </P>

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