Exhibit 24

                        POWER OF ATTORNEY

                 INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY
      Annual Report on Form lO-K for the Fiscal Year Ended
                        December 31, 1996


     The undersigned directors of INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY,
an Indiana corporation (the "Company"), do hereby constitute and
appoint E. LINN DRAPER, JR., G. P. MALONEY and P. J. DeMARIA, and
each of them, their attorneys-in-fact and agents, to execute for
them, and in their names, and in any and all of their capacities,
the Annual Report of the Company on Form lO-K, pursuant to Section
13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, for the fiscal year
ended December 31, 1996, and any and all amendments thereto, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform every act and thing
required or necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have signed these presents
this 26th day of February, 1997.

/s/ C. R. Boyle, III               /s/ James J. Markowsky
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C. R. Boyle, III                   James J. Markowsky

/s/ G. A. Clark                    /s/ D. B. Synowiec
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G. A. Clark                        D. B. Synowiec

/s/ P. J. DeMaria                  /s/ D. M. Trenary
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P. J. DeMaria                      D. M. Trenary

/s/ W. N. D'Onofrio                /s/ J. H. Vipperman
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W. N. D'Onofrio                    J. H. Vipperman

/s/ E. Linn Draper, Jr.            /s/ W. E. Walters
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E. Linn Draper, Jr.                W. E. Walters

/s/ Wm. J. Lhota                   /s/ E. H. Wittkamper
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Wm. J. Lhota                       E. H. Wittkamper

/s/ G. P. Maloney
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G. P. Maloney