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Francisco del Rosario Sánchez

1817 - 1861

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Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (March 9, 1817 – July 4, 1861) was a Dominican revolutionary, politician, and former president of the Dominican Republic. He is considered by Dominicans as the second prominent leader of the Dominican War of Independence, after Juan Pablo Duarte and before Matías Ramón Mella. Widely acknowledged as one of the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic, and the only martyr of the three, he is honored as a national hero. In addition, the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella is named partially in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Francisco del Rosario Sánchez is the 12,333rd most popular politician (up from 12,925th in 2024). (up from 3,340th in 2019)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez ranks 12,336 out of 19,576. Before him are Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Lucius Aurelius Cotta, Ferdinand Sarrien, Siegfried Kasche, Romuald Traugutt, Jon Huntsman Jr., Agasicles, and John Lee Ka-chiu. After him are Sanjay Gandhi, Modibo Keita, and Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez ranks 56. Before him are Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Adolphe Alphand, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, and Jozef Miloslav Hurban. After him are Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Charles Dancla, Georgi Pulevski, Édouard Deldevez, Francesco de Sanctis, and Ernest Hébert. Among people deceased in 1861, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez ranks 45. Before him are Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Louis Niedermeyer, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Albert Niemann, and Johann Andreas Wagner. After him are Václav Hanka, Antun Mihanović, Peter Georg Bang, Pierre Bosquet, Infante João, Duke of Beja, and Louis Vicat.

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