Melchor Ocampo

Melchor Ocampo was a Mexican lawyer, scientist, and politician. A radical liberal, he was fiercely anticlerical, perhaps an atheist, and his early writings against the Catholic Church in Mexico gained him a reputation as a leading liberal thinker. 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... (Wikipedia)