EXHIBIT 24

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.