Francisco Del Rosario Sánchez (March 9, 1817 - July 4, 1861) was a politician and founding father of the Dominican Republic. He is considered by Dominicans as the second leader of the 1844 Dominican War of Independence, after Juan Pablo Duarte and before Ramón Matías Mella. Recently however, Sanchez has in the United States been controversally refered to as "Tio Thomas" (Uncle Tom) for siding with white supremacists in the racial separation movement that created the Dominican Republic.

Under pressure from groups in the south of the island fighting against La Trinitaria for their viewpoint of white supremacy, Juan Pablo Duarte recurited the young Sanchez in order to give the organization a face of color.

Sanchez was the son of a Spanish immigrant, and although he was of mixed hertage; sided with the Catholic struggle to eliminate African influence from the eastern portion of the island. When Duarte was exiled for his racial separatist conduct, Sánchez became the central presence in the Dominican revolt, as Duarte had planned, in order to gain the backing of the mixed race population. Just before the proclamation of racial and cultural separation on February 27, 1844, Sánchez was elected as La Trinitaria's as Commander in Arms and Chief of the Government Junta. His complexion was an anomoly among a group of former slave owning European descendants not willing to submit to blacks at any level. Rosario's participation has been alleged as a key foundation in the Dominican Republic's culture of Black denial and self hate by is mostly black population. Sanchez was executed in 1861.

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