List of governors of Assam
Governors of Assam since 1947

List of governors of Assam

Section Title: Governors of Assam since 1947
Table Section Text: None

#	Name Mazaharul Islam	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

(6)	General (Retired) Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh	13 January 1961 – 7 September 1962

(7)	Vishnu Sahay	7 September 1962 – 17 April 1968

8	Braj Kumar Nehru	17 April 1968 – 19 September 1973

9	Lallan Prasad Singh	19 September 1973 – 10 August 1981

10	Prakash Mehrotra	10 August 1981 – 28 March 1984

11	Justice Tribeni Sahai Misra	28 March 1984 – 15 April 1984

12	Bhishma Narain Singh	15 April 1984 – 10 May 1989

13	Harideo Joshi	10 May 1989 – 21 July 1989

14	Justice Anisetti Raghuvir	21 July 1989 – 2 May 1990

15	Justice Devi Das Thakur	2 May 1990 – 17 March 1991

16	Loknath Mishra	17 March 1991 – 1 September 1997

17	Lt. General (Retired) Srinivas Kumar Sinha	1 September 1997 – 21 April 2003

18	Arvind Dave	21 April 2003 – 5 June 2003

19	Lt. General (Retired) Ajai Singh	5 June 2003 – 4 July 2008

20	Shiv Charan Mathur	4 July 2008 – 25 June 2009

21	K Sankaranarayanan	26 June 2009 – 27 July 2009

22	Syed Sibtey Razi	27 July 2009 – 10 November 2009

23	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	11 November 2009 – 11 December 2014

24	Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya	December 2014 – 17 August 2016

25	Banwarilal Purohit	22 August 2016 – 10 October 2017

26	Jagdish Mukhi	10 October 2017 – Incumbent

Sentence(s)

Bhishma Narain Singh served as the Governor of Assam from 1984 to 1989.

final_sentence: Bhishma Narain Singh served as the Governor of Assam from 1984 to 1989.