Jon Cooper and Robert Cooper
New York Times

Jon Cooper and Robert Cooper were married Thursday at Binney Park in Old Greenwich, Conn. Ann S. Isaacson, a justice of the peace in Greenwich, officiated.

Jon Cooper (left), 54, is the Democratic majority leader of the Suffolk County Legislature in Hauppauge, N.Y. He is also the president and an owner of the Spectronics Corporation, a manufacturer in Westbury, N.Y., that makes ultraviolet lighting equipment and fluorescent materials. He was the Long Island chairman for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and had a seat on Mr. Obama’s national finance committee. He graduated from Duke.

He is the son of Florence Cooper and B. William Cooper of Lloyd Harbor, N.Y. His father is a founder and the chief executive of Spectronics.

Robert Cooper, 51, legally changed his surname 21 years ago, soon after the first of the couple’s five children was adopted. He is a member of the board of the Family Service League, a nonprofit organization in Suffolk County that offers assistance to needy families.

He is a son of Nelida C. Lache of Miami and the late Roberto Mesa, who lived in Havana.