Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
(Re: Automatic Shelf Registration Statement)
Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (the
“Corporation”) hereby appoints Richard A. Cheap, Donald R. Kimble, and Mahesh Sankaran, as his or
her attorneys, and any of them, with power to act without the others, as his or her attorney for so
long as such individual remains an officer of the Corporation, to sign, in the name and on behalf
of the undersigned, and in any and all capacities stated below, and to cause to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), (1) the Corporation’s automatic shelf
registration statement on the appropriate form or a pre-effective amendment to the Corporation’s
Registration Statement on Form S-3, filed with the Commission on July 26, 2005 (File No.
333-126899) to convert such registration statement into an automatic shelf registration statement
(in either case, the “Automatic Shelf Registration Statement”) for the purpose of registering under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, an indeterminate number of shares of the Corporation’s
Common Stock, without par value, and Serial Preferred Stock, without par value, and an
indeterminate principal amount of Debt Securities of the Corporation to be issued and sold from
time to time and, in the case of the Serial Preferred Stock and Debt Securities, in one or more
series, and (2) any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to the Automatic Shelf
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 ratifying and
confirming all that any such attorney-in-fact or his substitute may lawfully do by virtue hereof.
In Witness Whereof, the undersigned have signed these presents as of the dates
indicated next to their respective signatures below.
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| /s/ Thomas E. Hoaglin
Thomas E. Hoaglin |
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Chairman, Chief Executive
Officer, President, and
Director
(principal executive officer)
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November 29, 2005 |
| /s/ Donald R. Kimble
Donald R. Kimble |
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Executive Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer, and
Controller
(principal financial officer
and principal accounting
officer)
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November 29, 2005 |
| /s/ Raymond J. Biggs
Raymond J. Biggs |
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Director
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November 29, 2005 |