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EXHIBIT 24.1
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors and/or officers of M&T Bank Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York (the “Corporation”), hereby constitutes and appoints Robert G. Wilmers, René F. Jones, Drew J. Pfirrman and Brian R. Yoshida, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and on his or her behalf and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign, execute and to affix his or her seal to and file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority) a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (or any other appropriate form), and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto, with all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect thereto, relating to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of shares of the Corporation’s common stock, par value $0.50 per share, to be issued or sold pursuant to the M&T Bank Corporation Deferred Bonus Plan, and of plan interests in such plan, granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full power and authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he himself or she herself 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.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned directors and/or officers has hereunto set his or her hand as of the date specified.
Dated: November 16, 2009
     
Signature   Title
 
   
/s/ Robert G. Wilmers
 
  Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer 
Robert G. Wilmers
  (Principal Executive Officer) and Director
 
   
/s/ René F. Jones
 
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 
René F. Jones
  (Principal Financial Officer)
 
   
/s/ Michael R. Spychala
 
  Senior Vice President and Controller 
Michael R. Spychala
  (Principal Accounting Officer)
 
   
/s/ Brent D. Baird
 
  Director 
Brent D. Baird
   
 
   
/s/ Robert J. Bennett
 
  Director 
Robert J. Bennett
   
 
   
/s/ C. Angela Bontempo
 
  Director 
C. Angela Bontempo
   
 
   
/s/ Robert T. Brady
 
  Director 
Robert T. Brady
   
 
   
/s/ Michael D. Buckley
 
  Director 
Michael D. Buckley
   

 


 

     
Signature   Title
 
   
/s/ T. Jefferson Cunningham III
 
  Director 
T. Jefferson Cunningham III
   
 
   
/s/ Mark J. Czarnecki
 
  Director 
Mark J. Czarnecki
   
 
   
 
 
  Director 
Colm E. Doherty
   
 
   
/s/ Patrick W.E. Hodgson
 
  Director 
Patrick W.E. Hodgson
   
 
   
/s/ Richard G. King
 
  Director 
Richard G. King
   
 
   
/s/ Jorge G. Pereira
 
  Director 
Jorge G. Pereira
   
 
   
/s/ Michael P. Pinto
 
  Director 
Michael P. Pinto
   
 
   
/s/ Robert E. Sadler, Jr.
 
  Director 
Robert E. Sadler, Jr.
   
 
   
 
 
  Director 
Eugene J. Sheehy
   
 
   
/s/ Herbert L. Washington
 
  Director 
Herbert L. Washington