EXHIBIT 24 POWER OF ATTORNEY Each of the undersigned officers and directors of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (the "Corporation") hereby appoints Richard A. Cheap, Anne W. Creek and Gerald R. Williams, as the undersigned's attorneys or any of them, with power to act without the other, as the undersigned's attorney, to sign, in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf and in any and all capacities stated below, and to cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to the Corporation's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 33-52569), 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 14th day of September, 1998.
SIGNATURE TITLE Frank Wobst - -------------------------------- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frank Wobst (principal executive officer) Gerald R. Williams Executive Vice President and Chief - -------------------------------- Financial Officer (principal financial Gerald R. Williams officer and principal accounting officer) SIGNATURE TITLE Don M. Casto III - -------------------------------- Director Don M. Casto III Don Conrad - -------------------------------- Director Don Conrad Patricia T. Hayot - -------------------------------- Director Patricia T. Hayot Wm. J. Lhota - -------------------------------- Director Wm. J. Lhota Robert H. Schottenstein - -------------------------------- Director Robert H. Schottenstein George A. Skestos - -------------------------------- Director George A. Skestos Lewis R. Smoot, Sr. - -------------------------------- Director Lewis R. Smoot, Sr. Timothy P. Smucker - -------------------------------- Director Timothy P. Smucker William J. Williams - -------------------------------- Director William J. Williams
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