Francisco María Sánchez (April 11, 1805 – September 8, 1862) was a Californio politician, military officer, and ranchero who served as 8th Alcalde of San Francisco and

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of the Presidio of San Francisco. Sánchez was the grantee of the 8,926-acre Rancho San Pedro and built the Sánchez Adobe in Pacifica.Early San Francisco Street Names: 1846-1849
San Francisco Museum. He was brother to

José de la Cruz Sánchez José de la Cruz Sánchez (November 8, 1799 – 1878) was a Californio statesman and ranchero who served as the eleventh Alcalde of San Francisco. Life José de la Cruz Sánchez was born November 8, 1799, in Santa Clara, California. He was ...

, who served as 11th Alcalde of San Francisco.

Life

Francisco Sánchez was born in

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and was the son of Ana Josefa Soto and José Antonio Sánchez (1773–1843), grantee of

Rancho Buri Buri Rancho Buri Buri (also called Sánchez Rancho) was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California, given in 1835 by Governor José Castro to José Antonio Sánchez. The name derives from the Urebure village of the Ramaytush spe ...

. Francisco's brother,

, was also an alcalde of San Francisco. He married Maria Teodora Higuera and they had ten children. During 1842 to 1846, Sánchez established the Sánchez Adobe in what is now Pacifica, California.Sanchez Adobe Park
National Park Service. He also served as the leader of the failed Mexican military response to the June 14, 1846 California Republic insurrection which established United States control of Mexican California. Sánchez is buried at the

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in San Francisco.

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1805 births 1862 deaths Mayors of San Francisco Pacifica, California People of Mexican California Californios 19th-century American politicians Burials at Mission San Francisco de Asís {{California-mayor-stub