Mayor White's leadership has brought the City together, as shown by the largest election margin in decades for a mayor of a major American city. He uses business practices everyday at City Hall, aiming to bring Houstonians from different backgrounds together to get things done.

He aggressively attacked our community's most difficult challenges, such as investment in neighborhood drainage, reform of municipal pensions, holding the line on property taxes with rate cuts, attacking crime hot spots and even faster removal of stalled vehicles causing wrecks and blocking traffic on the freeways.

Americans witnessed Mayor White's hands-on management style when he helped lead Houston's competent, compassionate dealing with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

In his second term, Mayor White is accelerating work with the private sector and community organizations to revitalize our City's most neglected neighborhoods, enforce pollution laws, reducing the flooding impact of new developments, and raising high school graduation rates and encouraging more flexible working hours.

Before serving as mayor, White built one of the region's most successful businesses. Previously he served as Deputy Secretary of Energy of the United States, where he helped diversify national energy supplies saving taxpayers billions of dollars with management reforms. Earlier in his career, he helped build and manage one of the nation's most successful law firms.

For decades Mayor White and his wife Andrea have helped lead numerous charitable and civic organizations. The Whites have three teenagers and attend St. Luke's United Methodist Church.