4h 3min, nov 7, 1876 y - The United States presidential election of 1876 was disputed and became the most controversial American election until the election of 2000.
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Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted.
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