The Green Bay Intelligencer was Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

’s first newspaper and was based in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,...

. It was founded by Albert Gallatin Ellis

Albert Gallatin Ellis

-Biography:Ellis was born in Verona, New York in 1800. An Episcopalian missionary, Ellis moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin with member of the Oneida people to establish a colony and a school. He later became involved in the Public Land Survey System before becoming a publisher of the Green Bay...

 and businessman John V. Suyder with the first issue published on December 11, 1833. In 1834, Mr. Ellis, and subsequently The Green-Bay Intelligencer, supported the campaign of local judge James Duane Doty

James Duane Doty

James Duane Doty was a land speculator and politician in the United States who played a large role in the development of Wisconsin and Utah Territory.-Legal career:...

. 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

Christopher Sholes

Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today...

, who moved the newspaper to Southport, Wisconsin (currently Kenosha).