Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
(Re: Huntington Bancshares Incorporated Amended and Restated 2007 Stock and Long-Term Incentive
Plan; Huntington Bancshares Incorporated Deferred Compensation Plan and Trust
for Huntington Bancshares Incorporated Directors; and
Inducement Grants)
Each director and officer of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (the “Corporation”), whose
signature appears below, hereby appoints Richard A. Cheap, Stephen D. Steinour, 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, up to 4,000,000 shares of
the common stock of the Corporation (as such number of shares may be adjusted from time to time for
stock dividends, stock splits, or similar transactions affecting the common stock of the
Corporation generally) in connection with the Corporation’s Amended and Restated 2007 Stock and
Long-Term Incentive Plan; up to 800,000 shares of the common stock of the Corporation (as such
number of shares may be adjusted from time to time for stock dividends, stock splits, or similar
transactions affecting the common stock of the Corporation generally) in connection with the
Corporation’s Deferred Compensation Plan and Trust for Huntington Bancshares Incorporated
Directors; and up to 1,147,553 shares of the common stock of the Corporation (as such number of
shares may be adjusted from time to time for stock dividends, stock splits, or similar transactions
affecting the common stock of the Corporation generally) in connection with inducement grants to
Kevin Blakely, Stephen D. Steinour, Randall G. Stickler, and Mark E. Thompson, 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 July 22, 2009.
DIRECTORS/OFFICERS:
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Title |
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/s/ Stephen D. Steinour
Stephen D. Steinour
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Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, and
Director
(Principal Executive Officer) |
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/s/ Donald R. Kimble
Donald R. Kimble
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Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and
Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer) |
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/s/ Thomas P. Reed
Thomas P. Reed
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Senior Vice President and Controller
(Principal
Accounting Officer) |
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/s/ Don M. Casto, III
Don M. Casto, III
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Director |
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/s/ Michael J. Endres
Michael J. Endres
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Director |