Knox H. White

Greenville has operated since 1976 under the city manager form of government, with an elected mayor and six-member city council, four chosen by district and two at-large. White was elected mayor in 1995 and has been reelected every four years since.

At the age of eighteen, White was an alternate delegate to the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, which re-nominated the Nixon-Agnew ticket. In 1988, at the age of thirty-four, White was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for South Carolina's 4th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives. His campaign was determined and well-financed, and backed by Governor Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., who formerly held the House seat himself. He lost narrowly to the Democratic incumbent Liz J. Patterson, the daughter of former U.S. Senator Olin D. Johnston. This came even as George H. W. Bush carried the 4th by a large margin.

White graduated from Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville Senior High School, Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and the University of South Carolina School of Law in the capital city of Columbia. He is a partner in the law firm Haynsworth, Sinkler & Boyd, with his specialization in immigration and customs. He and his wife, Marsha P. White (born c. 1955), have two children.

Knox H. White (born January 26, 1954) is an attorney in his native Greenville, South Carolina, who has served as his city's 34th and current mayor since December 11, 1995, a longer tenure than any other mayor of Greenville. Previously, he was an at-large member of the Greenville City Council from 1983 to 1993. He won another four-year term most recently in November 2015 and was unopposed in 2019.