Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT, that the undersigned Director of
Argosy Gaming Company, a Delaware corporation, which is about to file with
the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 its Annual Report Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended
December 31, 2000 hereby constitutes and appoints James B. Perry and Dale R.
Black, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents,
with full power to act without the other, to sign such Annual Report and to
file such Annual Report and the exhibits thereto and any and all other
documents in connection therewith with the Securities and Exchange Commission
and any national exchange or self regulatory agency and to do and perform any
and all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in connection with
the foregoing as fully as he might or could do in person hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
/s/ Edward F. Brennan
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Edward F. Brennan
Dated: February 8, 2001 Director
/s/ George L. Bristol
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George L. Bristol
Director
/s/ Felix Lance Callis
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Felix Lance Callis
Director
/s/ William F. Cellini
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William F. Cellini
Director
/s/ Jimmy F. Gallagher
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Jimmy F. Gallagher
Director
/s/ John Biggs Pratt, Sr.
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John Biggs Pratt, Sr.
Director