Education
He attended the public schools of Brunswick and Saint Louis and was graduated from the Manual Training School at Saint Louis in 1886.
United States representative politician
He attended the public schools of Brunswick and Saint Louis and was graduated from the Manual Training School at Saint Louis in 1886.
He became interested in various business enterprises in Saint Louis. He successfully contested as a Republican the election of Ernest East. Wood to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He was reelected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses and served from June 23, 1906, to March 4, 1911.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.
He moved to New York City in 1911. He engaged in the real estate, insurance, and publishing businesses.
He died in Norfolk, Virginia on July 5, 1930 and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery, in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Coudrey was elected a member of the municipal house of delegates of Saint Louis and served from 1897 to 1899, inclusive.