The American novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, befriended what future American president?

I believe it was Abe Lincoln

Not what I have but thanks for your answer, Sail!

Hawthorne met Lincoln, but, as far as I know, it was when Lincoln was president.


After the Civil War began, Hawthorne, deeply troubled by the war and his health in decline, went to Washington, D.C. where he met President Abraham Lincoln, and toured the battlefields at Manassas and Harpers Ferry, VA, scene of John Brown's Raid.


1862: Back at The Wayside, Hawthorne wrote of his travels to the Civil War battlefields at Manassas and Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and his visit to Washington, D.C. where he met President Abraham Lincoln. In July, it appeared in the Atlantic Monthly as "Chiefly About War Matters" by "A Peaceable Man." - NPS.gov

I'm going for another president that he met while school in Maine and became friends, DG.

I have to be honest; I didn't think the two had met at all. I thought that Hawthorne was much older than Lincoln and died before Lincoln came to national prominence. I also assumed that Hawthorne stayed in New England. Shows what I know.

Franklin Pierce.

You found it, mozart! Thanks for your answer.

This is my source.