EX-24 4 d263931dex24.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Power of Attorney

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints David S. Haffner, Matthew C. Flanigan and John G. Moore, and each of them (with full power of each to act alone), severally, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and to execute in his or her name, place and stead (individually and in any capacity stated below) the Registration Statement on Form S-8 with respect to securities (including Company Common Stock, as well as Options to purchase, and Stock Units convertible into, the Company’s Common Stock) to be sold pursuant to the Leggett & Platt, Incorporated Flexible Stock Plan, amended and restated; and any and all amendments to such Registration Statement, including post-effective amendments, and all documents and instruments necessary or advisable in connection with such registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental regulatory authority), granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents 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, as fully and to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents and/or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This Power of Attorney may be signed in multiple counterparts, and all such counterparts, collectively, shall constitute a single document.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Power of Attorney has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/S/ ROBERT E. BRUNNER

   Director   November 30, 2011
Robert E. Brunner     

 

   Director  
Ralph W. Clark     

/S/ R. TED ENLOE, III

   Director   December 1, 2011
R. Ted Enloe, III     

/S/ RICHARD T. FISHER

   Board Chair   December 2, 2011
Richard T. Fisher     

/S/ MATTHEW C. FLANIGAN

   Director   December 2, 2011
Matthew C. Flanigan     

 

   Director  
Karl G. Glassman     

/S/ RAY A. GRIFFITH

   Director   December 2, 2011
Ray A. Griffith     


/S/ DAVID S. HAFFNER

   Director   November 30, 2011
David S. Haffner     

/S/ JOSEPH W. MCCLANATHAN

   Director   December 1, 2011
Joseph W. McClanathan     

/S/ JUDY C. ODOM

   Director   December 4, 2011
Judy C. Odom     

/s/ MAURICE E. PURNELL, Jr.

   Director   December 1, 2011
Maurice E. Purnell, Jr.     

/S/ PHOEBE A. WOOD

   Director   November 30, 2011
Phoebe A. Wood