Marshall Clinton, 81, a Buffalo physician and clinical professor of medicine at UB, died Sept. 2 in Buffalo General Hospital. Clinton was a descendant of DeWitt Clinton, the governor who opened the Erie Canal in 1825, after championing the project.

A 1936 graduate of Cornell University, Clinton received a master of arts degree in physiology in 1938 and a medical degree in 1940 from the UB medical school. During World War II he was a research officer at the U.S. Army Climatology Laboratory, attaining the rank of major.

After training at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and Harvard School of Public Health, he returned to Buffalo to enter private practice. He was an attending physician at Buffalo General Hospital, where he was president of the medical staff in 1973-74.

A Fellow of the American College of Physicians, he served as its governor for upstate New York from 1973-77. He was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society, the Society of Sigma Xi, the Endocrine Society and the Roswell Park Medical Club. Clinton retired from active practice of medicine in 1990.