Thomas Hoyt Brown (April 3, 1839 – June 19, 1908) was an American businessman and Republican politician.

In 1888, merchant and former alderman Herman Kroeger ran for Mayor of Milwaukee as a Union Labor candidate advocating public ownership of municipal improvements, the establishment of public baths and a law permitting the recall of city officials.

He was taken so seriously that the Republicans and Democrats united to run Brown as a fusion candidate against him.

Radical Socialist Labor candidate Colin Campbell, backed by Paul Grottkau (imprisoned editor of the Arbeiter Zeitung) garnered 964 votes, just enough to keep Kroeger from winning if they’d gone to him instead.

[4] He is interred in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.