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A Short Biography of Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Author Name:

Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Born As:

Madalyn Mays

Other Names:

Born:

13 Apr 1919

Died:

29 Sep 1995




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Atheist activist                          
                          
Mother Lena Christina Scholle
Father John Irwin Mays.
Husband John Henry Roths, separated.
Had an affair with an officer, William J. Murray, Jr. Murray was a married Roman Catholic, and he refused to divorce his wife. Mays divorced Roths and began calling herself Madalyn Murray, and gave birth to a boy named William J. Murray.

Affair with Michael Fiorillo produced a son, Jon Garth Murray.
                          
                          
Madalyn Murray O’Hair was an atheist American activist who won a case in the US Supreme Court challenging the practice of prayers being said in schools. She went on to found American Atheists.

Madalyn O'Hair , her son Jon and granddaughter Robin,  were murdered by David R. Waters, a typesetter for American Atheists.