EX-24 5 0005.txt POWER OF ATTORNEY 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 --------------------- Richard K. Goeltz Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer [CORPORATE SEAL] Attest /s/ Stephen P. Norman ---------------------- Stephen P. Norman Secretary By /s/ Harvey Golub By -------------------------- -------------------------- Harvey Golub Beverly Sills Greenough Chairman, Chief Executive Director Officer and Director By /s/ Kenneth I. Chenault By /s/ F. Ross Johnson -------------------------- -------------------------- Kenneth I. Chenault F. Ross Johnson President, Chief Operating Director Officer and Director By /s/ Richard Karl Goeltz By /s/ Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. -------------------------- -------------------------- Richard Karl Goeltz Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Vice Chairman and Director Chief Financial Officer By /s/ Daniel T. Henry By /s/ Jan Leschly -------------------------- -------------------------- Daniel T. Henry Jan Leschly Senior Vice President and Director Comptroller By /s/ Daniel F. Akerson By /s/ Drew Lewis -------------------------- -------------------------- Daniel F. Akerson Drew Lewis Director Director By /s/ Edwin L. Artzt By /s/ Richard A. McGinn -------------------------- -------------------------- Edwin L. Artzt Richard A. McGinn Director Director By By /s/ Frank P. Popoff -------------------------- -------------------------- William G. Bowen Frank P. Popoff Director Director By /s/ Robert L. Crandall -------------------------- Robert L. Crandall Director