Melchor Ocampo, anabadwira ku Pateo, Michoacán mu 1814.
Anamaliza digiri ya bachelor ku Morelia Seminary komanso ngati loya ku University of Mexico. Ali ndi zaka 26, adadutsa ku Europe ndikubwerera kukadzipereka pandale. Adaganiza zaboma la Michoacán ndipo adapanga gulu lankhondo kuti likalimbane ndi anthu aku America mu 1848.
Wothamangitsidwa ndi Santa Anna, amakhala ku New Orleans komwe amakumana ndi Benito Juárez. Adabwerera ku Mexico mu 1854 pakupambana kwa Ayutla Plan kuti akhale Minister of Foreign Relations.
Mu 1856, Purezidenti wa Congress, adakhala mgulu la Commission yolemba malamulo atsopano. Juárez atayamba kukhala purezidenti, adachita, mwa ena, Ministry of Relations, kusaina Pangano Loyipa la Mac Lane-Ocampo lomwe limalola anthu aku North America kuyenda mosalekeza kudzera mu Isthmus of Tehuantepec posinthana ndi ndalama pazifukwa za Juarista. Mgwirizanowu sunavomerezedwe konse ndi United States Congress chifukwa chazachinyengo za Juárez.
Amachoka pantchito kupita kufamu yake ya Pomoca komwe amamangidwa ndi gulu la osamala motsogoleredwa ndi Félix Zuloaga ndi Leonardo Marquéz. Popanda mlandu, adawomberedwa mu Meyi 1861 ndipo thupi lake lidapachikidwa pamtengo.
