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== Early life and education ==

Ben Lawton was the third of four Lawton siblings, born on July 17, 1922, in [[Viroqua]], Wisconsin,<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Lawton Dies; was regent, surgeon |work=The Milwaukee Journal |date=May 19, 1987 |page=3A |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wYsfAAAAIBAJ&pg=7015%2C3984523 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> where his father, John Cliff Lawton, was a teacher and public school administrator. Lawton was subsequently raised by his mother, Cora Lawton (née Wheeler) and his grandmother, Margaret Wheeler, after his father's death in 1935. Lawton attended public schools in [[Vernon County, Wisconsin]]. He was admitted to the University of Wisconsin (UW) in 1940, where he majored in [[zoology]] and was elected to membership in [[Phi Eta Sigma]], a national honor society. After completing his bachelor's degree while working part-time as a milkman, BenLawton matriculated to the [[University of Wisconsin School of Medicine]], learning under the influence of Dean [[William Shainline Middleton]]. andHe obtainingobtained his [[Doctor of Medicine|M.D.]] degree in 1948 as a member of the [[Alpha Omega Alpha]] medical honor society., Heand thendid pursuedhis residency[[Residency training(medicine)|residency]] in [[general surgery]] at the University of Wisconsin General Hospital, followed by a fellowship in [[cardiothoracic surgery]]. Lawton served in the [[U.S. Army Medical Corps]] during the [[Korean War]] and returned to Wisconsin in 1954.<ref name=obit/>

==Career at the Marshfield Clinic==