Thomas Hopkinson Eliot (June 14, 1907 – October 14, 1991)[6] was an American lawyer, politician, and academic who served as chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and as a congressman in the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1932 and was admitted to the bar in 1933, commencing practice in Buffalo, New York.

He served as assistant solicitor in the United States Department of Labor from 1933 to 1935 and as general counsel for the Social Security Board from 1935 to 1937.

He was a lecturer on government at Harvard University from 1937 to 1938, and regional director of the Wage and Hour Division in the Department of Labor from 1939 to 1940.

[8] In 1938 Eliot, a Democrat, ran for election to the Seventy-sixth Congress, losing to Republican Robert Luce.