Brown (born 1901, date of death unknown) was a Canadian politician and insurance underwriter in Toronto.
[1] In the 1953 Toronto municipal election Brown ran on a platform promising to introduce rent control and came within 10,000 votes of defeating Allan Lamport for mayor.
Brown stirred controversy when he made an accousation that suite 1735 of the Royal York hotel was secretly being rented by the city to entertain guests for the mayor and was being used by a clique of powerful interests would be able to lobby and influence city politics.
Saunders claimed that the suite had been rented by Lamport when he was mayor and that he had been unaware of it, but it hurt his campaign.
[3] In his memoirs, Saunders accused Brown of "splitting the Christian and Gentile vote", allowing Phillips to become Toronto's first Jewish mayor.