EXHIBIT 24
Published on June 30, 1997
Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Huntington Bancshares
Incorporated (the "Corporation") hereby appoints Judith D. Fisher, Ralph K.
Frasier, and Gerald R. Williams as his attorneys or any of them, with power to
act without the other, as his attorney, to sign, in his name and on his behalf
and in any and all capacities stated below, and to cause to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), the Corporation's
Registration Statement on the appropriate form (the "Registration Statement")
for the purpose of registering under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
Capital Securities of a Delaware statutory business trust to be formed by the
Corporation (the "Trust") and Junior Subordinated Debentures of the Corporation,
to be issued and sold from time to time in one or more series, resulting in
proceeds to the Trust and to the Corporation in an aggregate principal amount
not to exceed $210 million (or such greater amount as shall result in aggregate
proceeds of $210 million if such securities are sold at an original issue
discount), and any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to
the Registration Statement, hereby granting unto such attorneys and each of them
full power and authority to do and perform in the name and on behalf 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 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 signed these presents this
23rd day of January, 1997.