Exhibit 24.1 POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned, being a
director or officer of 3M Company (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation,
hereby constitutes and appoints W. James McNerney, Jr., Robert J. Burgstahler,
Patrick D. Campbell, Gregg M. Larson, John J. Ursu, and Janet L. Yeomans, and
each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name,
place and stead in any and all capacities, to sign one or more Registration
Statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on Form S-3 or such
other form as such attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may deem necessary or
desirable, any amendments thereto, and all post-effective amendments and
supplements to such registration statement, for the registration of the number
of shares of the Company's common stock set forth in the registration statement,
in such forms as they or any one of them may approve, and to file the same with
all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done to the end that such
Registration Statement or Registration Statements shall comply with the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the applicable Rules and Regulations
adopted or issued pursuant thereto, 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, or any of them or their substitute or
resubstitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have subscribed these presents this
14th day of May 2002.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned, being a
director or officer of 3M Company (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation,
hereby constitutes and appoints W. James McNerney, Jr., Robert J. Burgstahler,
Patrick D. Campbell, Gregg M. Larson, John J. Ursu, and Janet L. Yeomans, and
each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name,
place and stead in any and all capacities, to sign one or more Registration
Statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on Form S-3 or such
other form as such attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may deem necessary or
desirable, any amendments thereto, and all post-effective amendments and
supplements to such registration statement, for the registration of the number
of shares of the Company's common stock set forth in the registration statement,
in such forms as they or any one of them may approve, and to file the same with
all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done to the end that such
Registration Statement or Registration Statements shall comply with the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the applicable Rules and Regulations
adopted or issued pursuant thereto, 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, or any of them or their substitute or
resubstitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have subscribed these presents this
14th day of May 2002.