[1][2] His father, Guilford Dudley, Sr., was a co-founder of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee.
His mother, Anne Dallas Dudley, was an activist in the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
[1] Under his leadership, the company built the Life & Casualty Tower in Downtown Nashville in 1957.
[2] He was the finance manager on the presidential campaigns of Republican candidates Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and he "served as an advisor to Ronald Reagan's 1980 transition team.
[1][2] His funeral was held at the Christ Church Cathedral,[2] and he was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery.