POWER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the

undersigned, being an Officer of WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION, a

Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the "Corporation"), does hereby

constitute and appoint DANIEL F. HOPP and ROBERT T. KENAGY,

with full power to each of them to act alone, as the true and lawful

attorneys and agents of the undersigned, with full power of substitution

and resubstitution to each of said attorneys, to execute, file or deliver any

and all instruments and to do all acts and things that said attorneys and

agents, or either of them, deem advisable to enable compliance with the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the "Act") and any

requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect

thereof, in connection with the filing under the Act of any statements

required to be filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Act, including

specifically, but without limitation of the general authority hereby

granted, the power and authority to sign on behalf of the undersigned as

an Officer of the Corporation, any Form 3, Form 4, Form 5 or any such

other report, statement or document required to be filed by or on the

undersigned's behalf pursuant to said Section 16(a); and the undersigned

does hereby fully ratify and confirm all that said attorneys and agents, or

either of them, or the substitute of either of them, shall do or cause to be

done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these

presents as of the first day of July 2003.

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Roy W. Templin