List of governors of Assam

Governor of Assam
Emblem of Assam
Incumbent Lakshman Prasad Acharya since 30 July 2024
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhawan, Guwahati
Appointer	President of India
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder	Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari
Formation	15 August 1947 (1947-08-15)
Website	https://rajbhavan.assam.gov.in

This is a list of governors of Assam.

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.^[1]

Legend

• ^† Died in office
• ^§ Transferred
• ^‡ Resigned/removed

Color key

•    indicates acting/additional charge

#	Portrait	Name (born – died)	Home state	Tenure in office			Appointer (President)
				From	To	Time in office
1		Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari KCIE CSI ICS (1894–1948)	Hyderabad	4 May 1947	28 December 1948[†]	1 year, 238 days	Lord Mountbatten (Governor-General)
–		Justice Sir Ronald Francis Lodge (1889–1960) Chief Justice, Assam High Court (Acting)	–	30 December 1948	15 February 1949	47 days	C. Rajagopalachari (Governor-General)
2		Sri Prakasa (1890–1971)	Uttar Pradesh	16 February 1949	26 May 1950	1 year, 99 days
3		Jairamdas Daulatram (1891–1979	Maharashtra	27 May 1950	14 May 1956	5 years, 353 days	Rajendra Prasad
4		Justice (Retd) Saiyid Fazl Ali (1886–1959)	Bihar	15 May 1956	22 August 1959[†]	3 years, 99 days
–		Justice Chandreswar Prasad Sinha Chief Justice, Assam High Court (Acting)	Bihar	23 August 1959	13 October 1959	51 days
5		General S. M. Shrinagesh (Retd) (1903–1977)	Maharashtra	14 October 1959	12 November 1960	1 year, 29 days
–		Vishnu Sahay ICS (1901–1989) (Acting)	Uttar Pradesh	12 November 1960	12 February 1961	92 days
(5)		General S. M. Shrinagesh (Retd) (1903–1977)	Maharashtra	13 February 1961	7 September 1962	1 year, 206 days
6		Vishnu Sahay ICS (Retd) (1901–1989)	Uttar Pradesh	8 September 1962[lower-greek 1]	16 April 1968	5 years, 221 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
7		Braj Kumar Nehru ICS (Retd) (1909–2001)	Uttar Pradesh	17 April 1968[lower-greek 2]	7 December 1970	2 years, 234 days	Zakir Husain
–		Justice Parbati Kumar Goswami (1913–1992) Chief Justice, Assam and Nagaland High Court (Acting)	Assam	8 December 1970	4 January 1971	27 days	V. V. Giri
(7)		Braj Kumar Nehru ICS (Retd) (1909–2001)	Uttar Pradesh	5 January 1971[lower-greek 3]	18 September 1973	2 years, 256 days
8		Lallan Prasad Singh ICS (Retd) (1912–1998)	Bihar	19 September 1973[lower-greek 4]	11 August 1981	7 years, 326 days
9		Prakash Mehrotra (1925–1988)	Uttar Pradesh	12 August 1981[lower-greek 5]	28 March 1984[‡]	2 years, 229 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
–		Justice Tribeni Sahai Misra (1922–2005) Chief Justice, Gauhati High Court (Acting)	Uttar Pradesh	28 March 1984[lower-greek 5]	15 April 1984	18 days	Zail Singh
10		Bhishma Narain Singh (1933–2018)	Bihar	15 April 1984[lower-greek 5]	11 May 1989	5 years, 26 days
11		Hari Dev Joshi (1920–1995)	Rajasthan	10 May 1989[lower-greek 5]	21 July 1989[‡]	72 days	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
–		Justice Anisetti Raghuvir (1929–2007) Chief Justice, Gauhati High Court (Acting)	Andhra Pradesh	27 July 1989	1 May 1990	278 days
12		Devi Das Thakur (1929–2007)	Jammu and Kashmir	2 May 1990	17 March 1991[‡]	319 days
13		Lokanath Misra (1921–2009)	Orissa	17 March 1991	1 September 1997	6 years, 168 days
14		Lieutenant General Srinivas Kumar Sinha (Retd) (1926–2016)	Bihar	1 September 1997	21 April 2003[§][lower-greek 6]	5 years, 232 days	K. R. Narayanan
–		Arvind Dave IPS (Retd) (born 1940) Governor of Arunachal Pradesh (Additional Charge)	Uttar Pradesh	21 April 2003	5 June 2003	45 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
15		Lieutenant General Ajai Singh (1934–2023)	Rajasthan	5 June 2003	4 July 2008	5 years, 29 days
16		Shiv Charan Mathur (1927–2009)	Rajasthan	4 July 2008	25 June 2009[†]	356 days	Pratibha Patil
–		Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (1932–2022) Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge)	Kerala	26 June 2009	26 July 2009[§][lower-greek 7]	30 days
17		Syed Sibtey Razi (1939–2022)	Uttar Pradesh	27 July 2009	10 December 2009	136 days
18		Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (1927–2015)	Odisha	11 December 2009	10 December 2014	4 years, 364 days
–		Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya (1931–2023) Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge)	Karnataka	11 December 2014	21 August 2016	1 year, 254 days	Pranab Mukherjee
19		Banwarilal Purohit (born 1940)	Maharashtra	22 August 2016	9 October 2017[§][lower-greek 8]	1 year, 48 days
20		Jagdish Mukhi (born 1942)	Delhi	10 October 2017	21 February 2023	5 years, 134 days	Ram Nath Kovind
21		Gulab Chand Kataria (born 1944)	Rajasthan	22 February 2023	29 July 2024[§][lower-greek 9]	1 year, 158 days	Droupadi Murmu
22		Lakshman Prasad Acharya (born 1954)	Uttar Pradesh	30 July 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 334 days