EXHIBIT 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
American Express Company, a New York corporation (the "Company"), and
each of the undersigned officers and directors of the Company, hereby
constitute and appoint Daniel T. Henry, Louise M. Parent and Stephen P.
Norman, jointly and severally, with full power of substitution and revocation,
their true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, for them and on their
behalf and in their respective names, places and steads, in any and all
capacities, to sign, execute and affix their respective seals thereto and file
any of the documents referred to below relating to the proposed registration
of up to 30,000 Common Shares, par value $.20 per share, that may be issued
pursuant to the American Express Directors' Stock Plan: a registration
statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including any
amendments thereto on behalf of the Company, with all exhibits and any and all
documents required to be filed with respect thereto with any regulatory
authority, granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same
as fully to all intents and purposes as they might or could do if personally
present, 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.
This Power of Attorney may be executed in counterparts.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, American Express Company has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed in its name by its Vice Chairman and Chief Financial
Officer and its corporate seal to be affixed and attested by its Secretary,
and the undersigned officers and directors have hereunto set their hand as of
the 22nd day of May, 2000.
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
By: /s/ Richard K. Goeltz
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Richard K. Goeltz
Vice Chairman and
Chief Financial Officer
[CORPORATE SEAL]
Attest
/s/ Stephen P. Norman
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Stephen P. Norman
Secretary
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By /s/ Harvey Golub By
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Harvey Golub Beverly Sills Greenough
Chairman, Chief Executive Director
Officer and Director
By /s/ Kenneth I. Chenault By /s/ F. Ross Johnson
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Kenneth I. Chenault F. Ross Johnson
President, Chief Operating Director
Officer and Director
By /s/ Richard Karl Goeltz By /s/ Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
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Richard Karl Goeltz Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Vice Chairman and Director
Chief Financial Officer
By /s/ Daniel T. Henry By /s/ Jan Leschly
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Daniel T. Henry Jan Leschly
Senior Vice President and Director
Comptroller
By /s/ Daniel F. Akerson By /s/ Drew Lewis
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Daniel F. Akerson Drew Lewis
Director Director
By /s/ Edwin L. Artzt By /s/ Richard A. McGinn
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Edwin L. Artzt Richard A. McGinn
Director Director
By By /s/ Frank P. Popoff
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William G. Bowen Frank P. Popoff
Director Director
By /s/ Robert L. Crandall
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Robert L. Crandall
Director
