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:
     
Signature   Title
 
   
/s/ Stephen D. Steinour
 
  Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, 
Stephen D. Steinour
  and Director (Principal Executive Officer)
 
   
/s/ Donald R. Kimble
 
  Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer 
Donald R. Kimble
  and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)
 
   
/s/ Thomas P. Reed
 
  Senior Vice President and Controller 
Thomas P. Reed
  (Principal Accounting Officer)
 
   
/s/ Don M. Casto, III
 
Don M. Casto, III
  Director 
 
   
/s/ Michael J. Endres
 
Michael J. Endres
  Director 

 


 

     
Signature   Title
 
   
/s/ Marylouise Fennell
 
Marylouise Fennell
  Director 
 
   
/s/ John B. Gerlach, Jr.
 
John B. Gerlach, Jr.
  Director 
 
   
/s/ D. James Hilliker
 
D. James Hilliker
  Director 
 
   
/s/ David P. Lauer
 
David P. Lauer
  Director 
 
   
/s/ Jonathan A. Levy
 
Jonathan A. Levy
  Director 
 
   
/s/ Wm. J. Lhota
 
Wm. J. Lhota
  Director 
 
   
 
  Director
 
Gene E. Little
   
 
   
/s/ Gerard P. Mastroianni
 
Gerard P. Mastroianni
  Director 
 
   
/s/ David L. Porteous
 
David L. Porteous
  Director 
 
   
/s/ Kathleen H. Ransier
 
Kathleen H. Ransier
  Director