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"Scholars have ranked Coolidge in the lower half of U.S. presidents."

This sentence seems completely out of place in the paragraph it leads. It's immediately followed by explaining what he is praised for, and it doesn't have any kind of reference. I'll leave it to the Wikipedia experts to figure out what might be better. 113.166.212.229 (talk) 13:48, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Calvin Coolidge was president from 1925-1929, not 1923-1929. 208.184.249.114 (talk) 17:05, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: whitehouse.gov says otherwise [[1]] Shadow311 (talk) 17:48, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add the following succession box to the article:

Party political offices
Preceded by Grafton D. Cushing	Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1915, 1916, 1917	Succeeded by Channing H. Cox

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]

Changing images

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]