William Harvey and George Daniels were sentenced to six and 10 years of hard labor, respectively, for telling other black servicemen they should not engage in a “white man’s war” when they weren't being treated as equals in their own country. ĭudley became involved in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, and in 1969, she and Tom protested the incarceration of two black Marines who spoke out against the Vietnam War. Dudley and her husband have two daughters, Morgan and Rebecca Dudley, whom they raised in Durham. When she married Portsmouth attorney Thomas Dudley, taking his last name of Dudley, her name became both a political asset and the source of humor throughout her career. She attended Durham Center School, the Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter, and studied art at the University of New Hampshire. In 1984, she won the Democratic primary to represent New Hampshire's First Congressional District.īorn in Exeter, New Hampshire, Dudley Webster was raised in the nearby town of Durham, where she has lived most of her life.
In 1976, Dudley became the first woman elected to the New Hampshire Executive Council, where she served four consecutive terms. Dudley at NH Executive Council meeting (1970s)ĭudley Webster Dudley (born Dudley Webster August 4, 1936) is an American political activist, known for her 1974 legislation that helped prevent shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis from building an oil pipeline on the Isles of Shoals and a refinery near Durham, New Hampshire.
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