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John Hancock of Texas, 1865-1880. Hancock, Hon. John of Texas, between 1865 and 1880. [Judge, politician and slave owner: supported Ulysses S. Grant's Native American policy which called for the placing Native Americans on reservations under government supervision; helped establish a military telegraph around the Texas frontier; fathered a child with one of his slaves].