Alexander Hamilton founded the New York Post
John Adams, a close friend, and associate of Hamilton's loss to Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 election; Jefferson and Hamilton had numerous disagreements during Hamilton's political career. The newspaper was founded by Hamilton in November 1801, when its name was the New York Evening Post. Hamilton attempted to raise $10,000 to support the project to create a New York newspaper with a strong Federalist Party attitude as opposed to President Thomas Jefferson's dominant Democratic-Republican Party. The founding father planned on using his new journal as a platform to promote the anti-Jefferson Federalist Party, which he assisted in creating. Many of The Post's early editorials were written by Hamilton himself.
On November 16, 1801, the first edition was released, which was just around three years before Alexander Hamilton would pass away in a famous duel with Aaron Burr. According to "The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism" by Allan Nevins, the Evening Post was formerly just a single sheet of paper that was folded in half to create four pages. The newspaper, now known as the New York Post, has been owned by multi-media magnate Rupert Murdoch since 1976. The sixth issue of the newspaper contained information about Alexander's son's passing.
