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Exhibit 24.1

Directors and Certain Officers
of

National City Corporation

Registration Statement on Form
10-K

Power of Attorney

The undersigned directors and officers of National City
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
Corporation) which anticipates filing an Annual
Report on
Form 10-K for the
Corporations fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 with
the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, hereby constitute and
appoint David L. Zoeller, Carlton E. Langer and Thomas A.
Richlovsky, and each of them, with full power of substitution
and resubstitution, as attorneys or attorney of the undersigned,
to sign in the capacities indicated below, said
Form 10-K, and any
and all amendments and exhibits thereto, or other documents to
be filed with, or submitted to, the Securities and Exchange
Commission pertaining thereto, with full power and authority to
do and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever required
and necessary to be done in the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as the undersigned could do if personally
present, hereby ratifying and approving the acts of said
attorneys, and any of them, and any such substitute.

EXECUTED as of this 20th day of December, 2005.

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|/s/
    Jon E. BarfieldJon
    E. Barfield                       |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    James S. BroadhurstJames
    S. Broadhurst               |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    Christopher M. ConnorChristopher
    M. Connor           |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    David A. DaberkoDavid
    A. Daberko                     |  | Chairman of the Board and
    Chief Executive Officer
    (Principal Executive Officer)
|/s/
    Joseph T. GormanJoseph
    T. Gorman                     |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    Bernadine P. Healy,
    M.D.Bernadine
    P. Healy, M.D. |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    S. Craig LindnerS.
    Craig Lindner                     |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    Paul A. OrmondPaul
    A. Ormond                         |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    Robert A. PaulRobert
    A. Paul                         |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    Gerald L. ShaheenGerald
    L. Shaheen                   |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    Jerry Sue Thornton,
    Ph.D.Jerry Sue Thornton, Ph.D.   |  | Director                                                                               
|/s/
    Morry WeissMorry
    Weiss                               |  | Director