EXHIBIT 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

Annual Report on Form 10-K for Year Ended December 31, 2005

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned Directors of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (the “Corporation”), a Pennsylvania corporation, hereby names, constitutes and appoints Richard J. Johnson, Samuel R. Patterson, George P. Long, III and Karen M. Barrett, and each of them, with full power of substitution, such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to execute in such person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, the Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005;

And such persons hereby ratify and confirm all acts that any said attorney or attorney-in-fact, or any substitute, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Witness the due execution hereof by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of this 15th day of March, 2006.

 

Name/Signature

 

Capacity

/s/ Paul W. Chellgren

Paul W. Chellgren

  Director

/s/ Robert N. Clay

Robert N. Clay

  Director

/s/ J. Gary Cooper

J. Gary Cooper

  Director

/s/ George A. Davidson, Jr.

George A. Davidson, Jr.

  Director

/s/ Richard B. Kelson

Richard B. Kelson

  Director

/s/ Bruce C. Lindsay

Bruce C. Lindsay

  Director

/s/ Anthony A. Massaro

Anthony A. Massaro

  Director


/s/ Thomas H. O’Brien

Thomas H. O’Brien

  Director

/s/ Jane G. Pepper

Jane G. Pepper

  Director

/s/ Lorene K. Steffes

Lorene K. Steffes

  Director

/s/ Dennis F. Strigl

Dennis F. Strigl

  Director

/s/ Stephen G. Thieke

Stephen G. Thieke

  Director

/s/ Thomas J. Usher

Thomas J. Usher

  Director

/s/ Milton A. Washington

Milton A. Washington

  Director

/s/ Helge H. Wehmeier

Helge H. Wehmeier

  Director