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Actually, there was a squeaker even later. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson was running against Charles Evans Hughes and a couple of minor party candidates (Socialist and Prohibition). The outcome of the election rested on California, and not only on California but eventually on the returns from one county somewhere in Northern California. A couple of days after the election, the returns came in by mail or some equally slow medium and Wilson carried California by only 4000 votes. He had at one point been ready to concede to Hughes.
BTW, a concession is absolutely meaningless. Just as meaningless as having Bush and Gore agree that they will abide by this or that. What matters is the votes, not what the candidates agree on.
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