List of governors of Assam

This is a list of governors of Assam.

Governor of Assam
Incumbent Jagdish Mukhi since 10 October 2017
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhawan, Guwahati
Appointer	President of India
Term length	Five Years
Inaugural holder	Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari (Independent India) Nicholas Beatson-Bell (Pre-Independent India)
Formation	3 January 1921; 103 years ago (1921-01-03)

The Governor of Assam is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of Assam. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years. The current governor is Gulab Chand Kataria.^[1]

List

#	Name	Tenure
1	Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari	15 August 1947 – 28 December 1948
-	Ronald Francis Lodge (Acting)	30 December 1948 – 16 February 1949
2	Sri Prakasa	16 February 1949 – 27 May 1950
3	Jairamdas Daulatram	27 May 1950 – 15 May 1956
4	Saiyid Fazal Ali	15 May 1956 – 22 August 1959
5	Chandreswar Prasad Sinha	23 August 1959 – 14 October 1959
6	General (Retired) Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh	14 October 1959 – 12 November 1960
7	Vishnu Sahay	12 November 1960 – 13 January 1961
8	General (Retired) Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh	13 January 1961 – 7 September 1962
9	Vishnu Sahay	7 September 1962 – 17 April 1968
10	Braj Kumar Nehru	17 April 1968 – 19 September 1973
-	Justice P. K. Goswami (acting for Nehru)	8 December 1970 – 4 January 1971
11	Lallan Prasad Singh	19 September 1973 – 10 August 1981
12	Prakash Mehrotra	10 August 1981 – 28 March 1984
13	Justice Tribeni Sahai Misra	28 March 1984 – 15 April 1984
14	Bhishma Narain Singh	15 April 1984 – 10 May 1989
15	Harideo Joshi	10 May 1989 – 21 July 1989
16	Justice Anisetti Raghuvir	21 July 1989 – 2 May 1990
17	Justice Devi Das Thakur	2 May 1990 – 17 March 1991
18	Loknath Mishra	17 March 1991 – 1 September 1997
19	Lt. General (Retired) Srinivas Kumar Sinha	1 September 1997 – 21 April 2003
20	Arvind Dave	21 April 2003 – 5 June 2003
21	Lt. General (Retired) Ajai Singh	5 June 2003 – 4 July 2008
22	Shiv Charan Mathur	4 July 2008 – 25 June 2009
23	K. Sankaranarayanan	26 June 2009 – 27 July 2009
24	Syed Sibtey Razi	27 July 2009 – 10 November 2009
25	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	11 November 2009 – 11 December 2014
26	Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya	December 2014 – 17 August 2016[2]
27	Banwarilal Purohit	22 August 2016 – 10 October 2017[3]
28	Jagdish Mukhi	10 October 2017 – Incumbent

References

1. "President Kovind Appoints 5 New Governors, Tamil Nadu Gets Its Own After A Year". NDTV.com. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
2. "P B Acharya to assume additional charge as Assam Governor". The Indian Express. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
3. "Najma Heptulla, Mukhi appointed Governors". Business Standard India. 17 August 2016.