I always confused the band with Josip Broz Tito.

Quite a dude. I like this quote in a letter from Tito to Stalin:
“Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
Maybe he was named for Vice President Thomas Marshall (VP under Woodrow Wilson), famous for saying that “what this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.”
I thought Tito was with The Jackson Five.