List of governors of Bihar
Governors of Bihar

List of governors of Bihar

Section Title: Governors of Bihar
Table Section Text: None

#	Name	Entered office	Left office

Before Independence

1	Sir James David Sifton	1 April 1936	10 March 1937

2	Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett	11 March 1937	15 May 1938

Sir Thomas Alexander Stewart (acting)	15 May 1938	16 September 1938

(2)	Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett	17 September 1938	5 August 1939

3	Sir Thomas Alexander Stewart	6 August 1939	2 February 1943

4	Sir Thomas George Rutherford	3 February 1943	6 September 1943

Sir Francis Mudie (acting)	7 September 1943	23 April 1944

(4)	Sir Thomas George Rutherford	24 April 1944	12 May 1946

5	Sir Hugh Dow	13 May 1946	14 August 1947

After Independence

1	Jairamdas Daulatram	15 August 1947	11 January 1948

2	Madhav Shrihari Aney	12 January 1948	14 June 1952

3	R. R. Diwakar	15 June 1952	5 July 1957

4	Zakir Hussain	6 July 1957	11 May 1962

5	M. A. S. Ayyangar	12 May 1962	6 December 1967

6	Nityanand Kanungo	7 December 1967	20 January 1971

Justice U.N. Sinha (acting)	21 January 1971	31 January 1971

7	Dev Kant Baruah	1 February 1971	4 February 1973

8	Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare	4 February 1973	15 June 1976

9	Jagannath Kaushal	16 June 1976	31 January 1979

Justice K.B.N. Singh (acting)	31 January 1979	19 September 1979

10	Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai	20 September 1979	15 March 1985

11	P. Venkatasubbaiah	15 March 1985	25 February 1988

12	Govind Narain Singh	26 February 1988	24 January 1989

Justice Dipak Kumar Sen (acting)	24 January 1989	28 January 1989

13	R.D. Pradhan	29 January 1989	2 February 1989

14	Jagannath Pahadia	3 March 1989	2 February 1990

Justice G.G. Sohoni (acting)	2 February 1990	16 February 1990

15	Mohammad Saleem	16 February 1990	13 February 1991

B. Satya Narayan Reddy (acting)	14 February 1991	18 March 1991

16	Mohammad Shafi Qureshi	19 March 1991	13 August 1993

(10)	Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai	14 August 1993	26 April 1998

17	Sunder Singh Bhandari	27 April 1998	15 March 1999

Justice B.M. Lall (acting)	15 March 1999	5 October 1999

18	Suraj Bhan (additional charge)	6 October 1999	22 November 1999

19	V. C. Pande	23 November 1999	12 June 2003

20	M R Jois	12 June 2003	31 October 2004

Ved Prakash Marwah (acting)	1 November 2004	4 November 2004

21	Buta Singh	5 November 2004	29 January 2006

22	Gopalkrishna Gandhi	31 January 2006	21 June 2006

23	R. S. Gavai	22 June 2006	9 July 2008

24	R. L. Bhatia	10 July 2008	28 June 2009

25	Devanand Konwar	29 June 2009	21 March 2013

26	D. Y. Patil	22 March 2013	26 November 2014

27	Keshari Nath Tripathi (Addl. charge)	27 November 2014	15 August 2015

28	Ram Nath Kovind	16 August 2015	20 June 2017

(27)	Keshari Nath Tripathi (Addl. charge)	20 June 2017	29 September 2017

29	Satya Pal Malik	30 September 2017	23 August 2018

30	Lalji Tandon	23 August 2018	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

Gavai was Governor of Bihar from 2006 to 2008.

final_sentence: Gavai was Governor of Bihar from 2006 to 2008.