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==Marriage and family== On July 1, 1919, Muñoz Marín married [[Muna Lee (writer)|Muna Lee]], an American writer from [[Raymond, Mississippi]], who had grown up in Oklahoma.<ref name="p.32-33">Bernier-Grand et al., pp. 32–33</ref> Lee was a leading [[Southern United States|Southern]] feminist and a rising writer of [[Pan-Americanism|Pan-American]] poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/muna.html |title=MUNA LEE: A PAN-AMERICAN LIFE |access-date=October 1, 2007 |author=Jonathan Cohen |date=December 20, 2004 |work=The Americas Series of the University of Wisconsin Press |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711231925/https://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/muna.html |archive-date=July 11, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> They had a daughter and a son together,<ref name="RHC Bio" /> but often lived apart before separating in 1938.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} During the 1920s Muñoz Marín spent the majority of his time in [[Greenwich Village]], where he lived apart from his wife and young children. During those years he often asked his wife and mother to send him money, and indulged in a "[[Bohemianism|Bohemian lifestyle]]" that strained his [[marriage]]. Muñoz Marín and his wife Muna Lee underwent a legal separation in 1938.<ref>A.W. Maldonado, ''Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's Democratic Revolution'', pp. 70–73; Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2006; {{ISBN|978-0-8477-0163-6}}</ref> During his first campaign for the Puerto Rico Senate in 1932, Muñoz Marín was accused of being a narcotics addict; he was alleged to be addicted to opium.<ref>Luis Muñoz Marín, ''Memorias'', p. 57; Fundacion Luis Muñoz Marín, 2003; {{ISBN|978-0-913480-53-3}}</ref><ref>A.W. Maldonado, ''Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's Democratic Revolution'', pp. 94–95; Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2006; {{ISBN|978-0-8477-0163-6}}</ref> Before his campaigns of 1938 and 1939, while he was still legally married, Muñoz Marín met [[Inés Mendoza]].<ref name="Foundation 2" /> A teacher, she became his mistress and was fired for complaining about the prohibition against classes in Spanish. They agreed that substituting "one language for another is to diminish that country's capacity to be happy".<ref name="p.61-62">Bernier-Grand et al., pp. 61–62</ref> Muñoz Marín asked Mendoza to "stay with him all his life."<ref name="p.63">Bernier-Grand et al., p. 63</ref> In 1940, a month after his election as [[President of the Senate]] in Puerto Rico, Muñoz Marín and Mendoza had a daughter, [[Victoria Muñoz Mendoza|Victoria]], named to commemorate his success.<ref name="p.73">Bernier-Grand et al., p. 73</ref> He and Mendoza officially married in 1946, and they had a second daughter, Viviana.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} In the 1980s, their daughter [[Victoria Muñoz Mendoza]] became active in Puerto Rican politics.<ref>{{cite news|title=Late leader's daughter takes up cause in Puerto Rico|url=https://news.google.com/wspapers?id=pMJGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jvMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5753,1175463|access-date=January 3, 2013|newspaper=The Lewiston Journal|date=October 8, 1985}}</ref> In 1992, she became the first woman to run as a candidate for the governorship of Puerto Rico.<ref>{{cite web|title=Summary of November 3, 1992 General Election Results|url=http://electionspuertorico.org/1992/summary.html|work=Elections Puerto Rico|access-date=3 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306040230/http://electionspuertorico.org/1992/summary.html|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
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