EX-24 7 powers.htm HIBERNIA CORPORATION POWERS OF ATTORNEY Exhibit 24-Powers of Attorney

Exhibit   24


P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ E.R. “Bo” Campbell                       
 E.R. “Bo” Campbell
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION






P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Paul Candies                       
 Paul Candies
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Richard W. Freeman, Jr.                       
 Richard W. Freeman, Jr.
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Dick H. Hearin                       
 Dick H. Hearin
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Randall E. Howard                       
 Randall E. Howard
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Elton R. King                       
 Elton R. King
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Sidney W. Lassen                       
 Sidney W. Lassen
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), her true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for her and on her behalf and in her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set her hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Janee “Gee” Mercadel-Tucker                       
 Janee “Gee” Mercadel-Tucker
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Ray B. Nesbitt                       
 Ray B. Nesbitt
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ William C. O'Malley                       
 William C. O'Malley
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION



P0WER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Hibernia Corporation, a Louisiana corporation (the “Corporation”), does hereby name, constitute and appoint E. R. “Bo” Campbell, J. Herbert Boydstun, Marsha M. Gassan, Jan M. Macaluso and Cathy E. Chessin, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, for him and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), the Annual Report of the Corporation on Form 10-K (or other appropriate form) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and any and all amendments thereto, with any and all exhibits and any and all other documents required to be filed with respect thereto or in connection therewith, granting unto said agents and attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, and the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 17th day of December 2003.

                            /s/ Robert T. Ratcliff                       
 Robert T. Ratcliff
Director
HIBERNIA CORPORATION