Anne Willis (Dallas) Dudley (1876 - 1955)

Born 13 Nov 1876 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

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Died 13 Sep 1955 at age 78 in Belle Meade, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Annie (Dallas) Dudley is Notable.

Annie (Dallas) Dudley was a Tennessean.

Annie Dallas Dudley was a and suffragette organizer from Nashville, Tennessee.

Anne Dallas was born in 1876 and grew up in Nashville ^[1]. She was the daughter of Trevanion Dallas, a wealthy cotton and textile mill owner from a prominent family. She married Guilford Dudley, the founder of a Nashville insurance company. They had 3 children together, but only Guilford Dudley Jr survived to adulthood.

Anne Dallas Dudley campaigned for the Tennessee General Assembly to ratify the 19th Amendment. She worked with Abby Milton of Chattanooga and Catherine Kenny of Nashville in organizing the suffrage movement in Tennessee and nationwide. She organized the first women's suffrage parade in the South^[2], and spoke in front of crowds of thosands of people. She was the President of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, then third-VP of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In 1920, she attended the Democratic National Convention as the first woman delegate-at-large.

She helped organize the Woman’s Civic League of Nashville and was president of the Maternal Welfare Organization of Tennessee, which brought Margaret Sanger to Nashville in 1938 to raise awareness of birth control. During WWII, she volunteered for the Red Cross and later for charitable causes and for historic preservation in Tennessee.

She passed away in 1955. She is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee. Anne Dallas Dudley’s image appears in the Tennessee state bicentennial oil painting, The Pride of Tennessee, which hangs in the Capitol. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1995 ^[3].

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS8W-QX7 : accessed 31 December 2018), Annie Willis Dallas in household of Trevanion B Dallas, Nashville city Ward 9, Davidson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 91, sheet 10B, family 233, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,564.
2. ↑ TN Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail, 2018
3. ↑ National Women's Hall of Fame

• Find A Grave: Memorial #34691770
• Carole Stanford Bucy, "Anne Dallas Dudley", Tennessee Encyclopedia, by Tennessee Historical Society. Published October 8, 2017. Last updated March 1, 2018.
• Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
• "Anne Dallas Dudley", Iowa State University, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. January 14, 2020
• Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial Collaborative, Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University
• Aubrey C. Watson, "Nashville's Shortest Street is Long on History: The Anne Dallas Dudley Story", The Tennessee Conservationist
• Wikipedia: Anne_Dallas_Dudley
• Wikidata: Item Q3784220