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EXHIBIT 24
P O W E R O F A T T O R N E Y
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that, a director of Dover
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and
appoints Thomas L. Reece, John F. McNiff and Robert G. Kuhbach, and each of them
(with full power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, for him/her on his/her behalf and in his/her name,
place and stead, to sign, execute and affix his/her name thereto and file the
Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
1998, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any other appropriate
authority, granting unto said attorneys and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing required and necessary
to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to
all intents and purposes as he/she himself might or could do if personally
present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, of any of them may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his/her hand
this 29th day of January, 1999.
/s/ David H. Benson
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David H. Benson
/s/ Magalen O. Bryant
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Magalen O. Bryant
/s/ John-Pierre M. Ergas
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John-Pierre M. Ergas
/s/ Roderick J. Fleming
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John-Pierre Ergas
/s/ James L. Koley
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James L. Koley
/s/ John F. McNiff
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John F. McNiff
/s/ John E. Pomeroy
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John E. Pomeroy
/s/ Thomas L. Reece
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Thomas L. Reece
/s/ Gary L. Roubos
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Gary L. Roubos