Coudrey was elected president of the National Association of Casualty & Surety Underwriters.

[1] Coudrey was elected a member of the municipal house of delegates of St. Louis in 1897 and served for two years.

Coudrey was at one time president of the Twenty-eight Ward Republican League Club.

[1] He successfully contested as a Republican the election of Democrat Ernest E. Wood to the Fifty-ninth Congress.

He died in Norfolk, Virginia, on July 5, 1930, and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery, in St. Louis, Missouri.