 Senator Victoria Muñoz Mendoza succeeded him as president of the party and later became a gubernatorial candidate herself.On October 24, 1959, Hernández Colón married Lila Mayoral Wirshing, daughter of the industrialist Juan Eugenio Mayoral Renovales (1906-1967), founder of Ponce Candy Industries.Rafael Hernández Colón and Lila Mayoral had four children