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| ID Number: | PA13-0101 |
| Description: | Melchor Ocampo |
| Country or State: | Mexico |
| Year: | 15 July 1940 |
| Face Value: | 5 ¢ - Mexican centavo |
| Series: | 400 years San-Nicolas-de-Hidalgo-College, Patzcuaro |
| Perforation: | 10 x 10½ |
| Printing: | Recess |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 25 x 40 mm |
| Catalog Number: | Michel MX 792 Stamp Number MX 761 Stanley Gibbons MX 656 |
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Melchor Ocampo (5 January 1814 – 3 June 1861) was Mexican lawyer, scientist, and politician. A mestizo by birth and a radical liberal, he was fiercely anticlerical, perhaps an atheist, and his early writings against Roman Catholic Church in Mexico gained him a reputation as an articulate liberal ideologue. Ocampo has been considered the heir to José María Luis Mora, the premier liberal intellectual of the early republic. He served in the administration of Benito Juárez and negotiated a controversial agreement with the United States, the McLane-Ocampo Treaty. The Mexican state where his hometown of Maravatío now stands was much later renamed Michoacán de Ocampo in his honor. |
