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                                                                   EXHIBIT (24)
                                      
                      FIRST OF AMERICA BANK CORPORATION
                                      
                              POWER OF ATTORNEY

        Each of the undersigned directors of First of America Bank Corporation
does hereby authorize each of Daniel R. Smith, Richard F. Chormann and Thomas
W. Lambert and each of them to execute in his or her behalf and sign his or her
name to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995, of
the said corporation to the Securities and Exchange Commission and any
amendment or amendments thereto and appoints the same Daniel R. Smith, Richard
F. Chormann and Thomas W. Lambert and each of them as attorney in fact to sign
in his or her behalf individually and as a direrctor of said corporation such
report and any amendments thereof.



                                     
/s/  JON E. BARFIELD                    /s/  MARTHA M. MERTZ
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Jon E. Barfield                         Martha M. Mertz

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                /s/  DANIEL R. SMITH
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John W. Brown                           Daniel R. Smith 

/s/ RICHARD F. CHORMANN                 /s/  JAMES S. WARE
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Richard F. Chormann                     James S. Ware

/s/  JOSEPH J. FITZSIMMONS              /s/  JAMES W. WOGSLAND
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Joseph J. Fitzsimmons                   James W. Wogsland

/s/  JOEL N. GOLDBERG                   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Joel N. Goldberg                        Walter J. Wolpin

/s/  CLIFFORD L. GREENWALT              
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Clifford L. Greenwalt                   

/s/  ROBERT L. HETZLER                                                
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Robert L. Hetzler                                                     
                                                                      
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Dorothy A. Johnson                                                    






Dated:  February 20, 1996