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Please add the following succession box to the article:

2601:249:9301:D570:1DFB:5F3B:1012:72AB (talk) 16:19, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done – Anne drew (talk · contribs) 04:02, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the official photo for this page be Coolidge when he was president and not when he was governor in 1919? This portrait from 1924 would fit well as the official photo in my opinion.

Rexxx7777 (talk) 17:46, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that, other things being equal, a 1924 portrait would be preferable to a 1919 portrait.

This 1924 portrait looks fine to me too.

I typed "Calvin Coolidge" at the Amazon website, and got a bunch of books about him, generally with portraits (presumably the portraits used on the book jackets). It looks like this portrait was used for the book jacket of a book by Robert Sobel. There are some other interesting portraits among those books. Most of them are not already in the WikiMedia commons, so if you liked one of them better than you like this one, you'd have to upload it to the commons; but they should all be in the public domain by now, anyway. Bruce leverett (talk) 20:51, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As of now, I'll stick with the 1924 portrait, because most of the portraits you mentioned don't seem to have dates with them.

By the way, couldn't I just change the photo now considering hardly anyone else will likely even comment in this discussion? Rexxx7777 (talk) 23:00, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can boldly do that, but just in the past few months there have been substantial discussions about infobox portraits in Martin Van Buren, Franklin Pierce, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and perhaps others, including at least two RfC's; and I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of U.S. president articles have had such discussions. Bruce leverett (talk) 04:17, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just did it. Now we’ll see if anything happens. Rexxx7777 (talk) 04:36, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I vastly prefer the 1919 portrait as a piece of photography and as a representation of the man, but your logic is not only sound but welcomed. His tenure as Presidency is easily the most notable aspect of Coolidge and, as such, his photograph should reflect that. Thank you for the update! SlippinJimmy79 (talk) 17:45, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He in fact died of a heart attack and not coronary thrombosis. Please edit this. 202.84.42.187 (talk) 06:15, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that the official cause of death was listed as coronary thrombosis. However if you have reliable sources that claim otherwise you can cite them here for discussion. The term "heart attack" is one that is often used by laymen more broadly than its strict medical meaning, i.e. myocardial infarction. All of which said, no autopsy was performed so we cannot be certain. Perhaps we should rephrase the line to read "Coolidge died suddenly at "The Beeches" on January 5, 1933, at 12:45 p.m., aged 60. The official cause of death was stated as coronary thrombosis." -Ad Orientem (talk) 16:45, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article says that Coolidge had been approached to replace Hoover as the Republican nominee after the Democratic landslide in 1932. That of course is wrong and someone wrongly removed the fact that FDR had earlier been Coolidge's VP opponent in 1920 49.176.123.156 (talk) 14:00, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, someone changed the wording to make it less accurate. I reverted it to what I wrote in 2007, which is what the sources cited there actually say. --Coemgenus (talk) 15:57, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]