Prior to being elected lieutenant governor in 2002, Lawton won the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor in 1998 and ran alongside the party's nominee for governor, attorney Ed Garvey.
Marcus Garvey | Steve Garvey | Mike Garvey | Amy Ashwood Garvey | Old Dee Bridge ''circa'' 1765–80, in a painting attributed to Edmund Garvey | John H. Garvey | Ed Garvey | Amy Jacques Garvey | Alfred "Garvey" Estrada |
The Ed Garvey Memorial Shelter on the Appalachian Trail at Weverton Cliffs at Weverton, Maryland near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia was built and named in his honor.