<Tr> <Th> Partner (s) </Th> <Td> William J. Murray, Jr . Michael Fiorillo </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> William J. Murray III Jon Garth Murray </Td> </Tr> <P> Madalyn Murray O'Hair (née Mays; April 13, 1919--September 29, 1995), who also used multiple pseudonyms (her most preferred being M. Bible), was an American activist, founder of American Atheists, and the organization's president from 1963 to 1986 . She created the first issues of American Atheist Magazine . One of her sons, Jon Garth Murray, became the nominal president of the organization from 1986 to 1995, but she remained de facto president during these nine years . </P> <P> O'Hair is best known for the Murray v. Curlett lawsuit, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling ending official Bible - reading in American public schools in 1963 . (This issue had been brought up earlier at the Bible riots when Irish Catholics first came over, before the civil war). The 1963 case came just one year after the Supreme Court prohibited officially sponsored prayer in schools in Engel v. Vitale . </P>

Who was responsible for removing prayer from schools