Published on July 6, 2007
Exhibit
24
POWER
OF ATTORNEY
(Re: Huntington
Bancshares Incorporated 2007 Stock and Long-Term Incentive
Plan,
Inducement
Grant,
SkyFinancial
Group, Inc. Profit Sharing, 401(k) and ESOP Plan,
Sky
Financial Group, Inc. Non-Qualified Retirement Plan and
Sky
Financial Group, Inc. Non-Qualified Retirement Plan II)
Each
director and officer of
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (the “Corporation”), whose signature appears
below, hereby appoints Richard A. Cheap, Thomas E. Hoaglin, and Donald R.
Kimble, or any of them, as his or her attorney-in-fact, to sign, in his or
her
name and behalf and in any and all capacities stated below, and to cause to
be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Corporation’s
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) for the
purpose of registering under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, shares
of
the common stock of the Corporation in connection with: the
Corporation’s 2007 Stock and Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended from time to
time; an award of restricted stock as an inducement grant; the Sky Financial
Group, Inc. Profit Sharing, 401(k) and ESOP Plan, as amended from time to time,
along with an indeterminate amount of plan interests thereunder; the Sky
Financial Group, Inc. Non-Qualified Retirement Plan, as amended from time to
time, along with an indeterminate amount of plan interests thereunder; and
the
Sky Financial Group, Inc. Non-Qualified Retirement Plan II, as amended from
time
to time, along with an indeterminate amount of plan interests thereunder, and
likewise to sign and file any amendments, including post-effective amendments,
to the Registration Statement, hereby granting to such attorneys, and
to each of them, individually, full power and authority to do and perform in
the
name and on behalf of each of the undersigned, and in any and all such
capacities, every act and thing whatsoever necessary to be done in and about
the
premises as fully as any of the undersigned could or might do in person, hereby
granting to each such attorney-in-fact full power of substitution and revocation
and hereby ratifying all that any such attorney-in-fact or his substitute may
do
by virtue hereof.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned
have executed this Power of Attorney, in counterparts if necessary, effective
as
of June 20, 2007.
DIRECTORS/OFFICERS:
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Title
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/s/
Thomas E. Hoaglin
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Chairman,
Chief Executive Officer, President,
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Thomas
E. Hoaglin
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and
Director (Principal Executive Officer)
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/s/
Donald R. Kimble
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Executive
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
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Donald
R. Kimble
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and
Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)
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/s/
Thomas P. Reed
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Senior
Vice President and Controller
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Thomas
P. Reed
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(Principal
Accounting Officer)
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/s/
Raymond J. Biggs
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Director
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Raymond
J. Biggs
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/s/
Don M. Casto, III
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Director
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Don
M. Casto, III
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/s/
Michael J. Endres
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Director
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Michael
J. Endres
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/s/
John B. Gerlach, Jr.
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Director
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John
B. Gerlach, Jr.
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/s/
David P. Lauer
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Director
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David
P. Lauer
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/s/
Wm. J. Lhota
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Director
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Wm.
J. Lhota
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/s/
Gene E. Little
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Director
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Gene
E. Little
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/s/
David L. Porteous
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Director
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David
L. Porteous
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/s/
Kathleen H. Ransier
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Director
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Kathleen
H. Ransier
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