EXHIBIT 24

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

                     FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL 2002

 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Ellen O. Kaden and John J. Furey, each of them, until
December 31, 2002, their true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full
power of substitution and revocation, for them and in their name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign Campbell Soup Company's Form 10-K
Annual Report to the Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal year
ended July 28, 2002, and any 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, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
said attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

                              CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY


Signature                                        Dated as of September 26, 2002
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/s/Alva A. App                                      /s/Philip E. Lippincott
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Alva A. App                                         Philip E. Lippincott


/s/Edmund M. Carpenter                              /s/Mary Alice D. Malone
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Edmund M. Carpenter                                 Mary Alice D. Malone


/s/Douglas R. Conant                                /s/Charles H. Mott
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Douglas R. Conant                                   Charles H. Mott


/s/Bennett Dorrance                                 /s/Charles R. Perrin
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Bennett Dorrance                                    Charles R. Perrin


/s/Thomas W. Field, Jr.                             /s/George M. Sherman
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Thomas W. Field, Jr.                                George M. Sherman


/s/Kent B. Foster                                   /s/Donald M. Stewart
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Kent B. Foster                                      Donald M. Stewart


/s/Harvey Golub                                     /s/George Strawbridge, Jr.
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Harvey Golub                                        George Strawbridge


/s/David K. P. Li                                   /s/Charlotte C. Weber
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David K. P. Li                                      Charlotte C. Weber