The tables below list United States presidential elections in Missouri, ordered by year.
 Since 1904, Missouri has voted for the eventual winner of the presidential election, with three exceptions: the 1956 election, the 2008 election and the 2012 election; it is commonly viewed as a bellwether state, though the consecutive errors in 2008 and 2012 have begun doubts about its continued status as a bellwether.
 In 2016 however, the state was won by a margin of 18.04 points, indicating it to be a safe Republican state.
Kuala Terengganu by-election of 2009 was held on 17 January 2009 after the death of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Razali Ismail.
 In the 2008 election, Datuk Razali won by a slim 628 vote majority, defeating Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) heavyweight Mohamad Sabu and 89-year-old independent candidate, Maimun Yusuf.
 Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Barisan Nasional were confident that Barisan Nasional would retain the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat.
 The Prime Minister had rejected the assumption that there would be a big swing by the voters to the Opposition.
 Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim stated that Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and the Democratic Action Party (DAP) would support any candidate that PAS picked.
 He was optimistic that Pakatan Rakyat would win in Kuala Terengganu if all its coalition parties worked hard against Barisan Nasional.
 In the 2008 election Razali, a government minister of the UMNO party, defeated a PAS opposition candidate by 628 votes.
 For the by-election PAS nominated state assemblyman Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut, while Barisan Nasional nominated Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh.
 Mohd Abdul won the by-election by 2,631 votes.
Sadhana Sthapak (Hindi: साधना स्थापक ) is an MLA member from Gadarwara District Narsinghpur Madhya Pradesh seat.
 She has been in the MLA from 1998-2003.
 She was defeated by Govind Singh Patel in the 2003 Election.
 In the 2008 Election she was elected again for Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Election 2008.
 She is member of Indian National Congress
Dean Oliver Barrow (born 2 March 1951) is a Belizean politician who has been Prime Minister of Belize since 2008.
 He is also the leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP).
 An attorney by trade, he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1998 and was Leader of the Opposition from 1998 until the UDP won the February 2008 election.
 Barrow started his first term as Prime Minister after victory in the 2008 election.
 He started his second term after the UDP again won an election on 7 March 2012.
 He started his third term when the UDP won again on 4 November, 2015.
The gubernatorial election in Washington, 2008 elected the Governor of Washington on November 4, 2008.
 With the emergence from the August 19 primary of Republican Dino Rossi and incumbent Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire, the 2008 election was a rematch between the candidates from the 2004 election.
 That election was the closest in Washington State history with each receiving 49 percent of the vote and Rossi winning the first two of three counts.
 In contrast to the recounts and months of legal challenges in their previous contest, Dino Rossi conceded defeat in the election to Gregoire on November 5, earning 46 percent of the vote.
Shirley Breeden is a Democratic member of the Nevada Senate, representing Clark County District 5 (map) since 2009.
 She won her first term in 2008, when she narrowly upset incumbent Republican Joe Heck.
Mohd Firdaus Jaafar (born 15 March 1974) is a Malaysian politician and was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Jerai constituency in Kedah from 2008 to 2013.
 Firdaus was elected to the Jerai seat in the 2008 election, defeating incumbent Badruddin Amiruldin of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.
 Prior to the election, Firdaus was a religious teacher.
 He was defeated in the 2013 election by Jamil Khir Baharom.
Joseph John “Joe” Heck (born October 30, 1961) is an American politician, physician, and U.S. Army Brigadier General who had served as the U.S. Representative for Nevada's 3rd congressional district from 2011 to 2017.
 Heck, a member of the Republican Party, is a board-certified physician and served as a Nevada State Senator from 2004-08.
 He ran unsuccessfully against Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto in the general election for the open Nevada United States Senate seat in 2016.
 In the same year, Heck made headlines by joining a long list of Republicans who opposed the GOP nominee for President, Donald Trump.
Phyllis Busansky (March 3, 1937 – June 23, 2009) was the Democratic Commissioner of Hillsborough County, Florida from 1989 to 1997.
 In 1995 she was named a "Public Official of the Year" by "Governing" magazine, She ran in Florida's 9th congressional district election, 2006, unsuccessfully.
 She defeated incumbent Buddy Johnson in the November 2008 election for Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections.
Peter Eric James Prentice {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (July 20, 1956 – October 13, 2016) was a Canadian politician who served as the 16th Premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015.
 In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada.
 He was re-elected in the 2006 federal election and appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians.
 Prentice was appointed Minister of Industry on August 14, 2007, and after the 2008 election became Minister of Environment on October 30, 2008.
 On November 4, 2010, Prentice announced his resignation from cabinet and as MP for Calgary Centre-North.
 After retiring from federal politics, he entered provincial politics in his home province of Alberta, and ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta to replace Alison Redford, who had resigned earlier that year.
 On September 6, 2014, he won the leadership election, becoming both the leader of the Progressive Conservatives and as such the Premier, as his party held a majority in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Question: In what year was the man who Shirley Breeden defeated in a 2008 election born?
Answer: 1961