# List of governors of Assam

This is a list of governors of Assam, and other offices of similar scope, from the start of British occupation of the area in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War.
The governor of Assam is the nominal head of the Indian state of Assam. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor is Lakshman Acharya.

## Powers and functions

The governor has:
* Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals
* Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad
* Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the governor

## British military commanders in occupied Assam (1824–26)

| No. | Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | George McMorine | | 1824 | 1824 |
| 2 | Arthur Richards | | 1824 | 1826 |

## Commissioners of Assam (1826–1905)

On 24 February 1826, the Treaty of Yandaboo ceded portions of Assam from Burma to Britain.In 1826, Western Assam was incorporated into the province of Bengal, followed by the rest of Assam in 1833. A commissioner of Assam was appointed, subordinate to the governor of Bengal.Chief commissioners of Assam (1874–1905) In 1874, Assam was separated from the Bengal Presidency, and its status was upgraded to a chief commissioner's province.
| No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
| 3 | David Scott | 1826 | 1831 |
| 4 | Thomas Campbell Robertson | 1831 | 1834 |
| 5 | Francis Jenkins | 1834 | 1861 |
| 6 | Henry Hopkinson | 1861 | 1874 |
| 7 | Richard Harte Keatinge | 1874 | 1878 |
| 8 | Steuart Colvin Bayley | 1878 | 1881 |
| 9 | Charles Alfred Elliott | 1881 | 1885 |
| 10 | William Erskine Ward | 1885 | 1887 |
| 11 | Dennis Fitzpatrick (colonial administrator) | 1887 | 1889 |
| 12 | James Westland | 1889 | 1889 |
| 13 | James Wallace Quinton | 1889 | 1891 |
| 14 | William Erskine Ward | 1891 | 1896 |
| 15 | Henry John Stedman Cotton | 1896 | 1902 |
| 16 | Joseph Bampfylde Fuller | 1902 | 1905 |

## Lieutenant governors of East Bengal and Assam (1905–12)

In 1905, Bengal was partitioned and East Bengal and Assam was formed, governed by a lieutenant governor.
| No. | Name | Took office | Left office | Appointer |
| 17 | Sir Bampfylde Fuller | 16 October 1905 | 20 August 1906 | The Lord Curzon of Kedleston |
| 18 | Lancelot Hare | 20 August 1906 | 1911 | The Earl of Minto |
| 19 | Sir Charles Stuart Bayley | 1911 | 21 March 1912 | The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst |

## Governors of Assam since 1912

| No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
| 20 | Archdale Earle | 1912 | 3 January 1918 |
| 21 | Sir Nicholas Dodd Beatson-Bell | 3 January 1918 | 3 April 1921 |
| 22 | Sir William Sinclair Marris | 3 April 1921 | 10 October 1922 |
| 23 | John Henry Kerr | 10 October 1922 | 28 June 1927 |
| 24 | Egbert Laurie Lucas Hammond | 28 June 1927 | 11 May 1932 |
| 25 | Michael Keane | 11 May 1932 | 4 March 1937 |
| 26 | Robert Niel Reid | 4 March 1937 | 24 February 1938 |
| 27 | Henry Joseph Twynam | 24 February 1938 | 4 October 1939 |
| 28 | Robert Niel Reid | 4 October 1939 | 4 May 1942 |
| 29 | Andrew Gourlay Clow | 4 May 1942 | 4 April 1946 |
| 30 | Frederick Chalmers Bourne | 4 April 1946 | 4 September 1946 |
| 31 | Henry Foley Knight | 4 September 1946 | 23 December 1946 |
| 32 | Andrew Gourlay Clow | 23 December 1946 | 4 May 1947 |
| 33 | Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari | 4 May 1947 | 15 Aug 1947 |
| (33) | Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari | 15 Aug 1947 | 29 Dec 1948 |
| 34 | Ronald Francis Lodge | 30 December 1948 | 15 February 1949 |
| 35 | Sri Prakasa | 16 Feb 1949 | 26 May 1950 |
| 36 | Jairamdas Daulatram | 27 May 1950 | 14 May 1956 |
| 37 | Saiyid Fazal Ali | 15 May 1956 | 22 August 1959 |
| 38 | Chandreswar Prasad Sinha | 23 August 1959 | 13 October 1959 |
| 39 | Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | 14 October 1959 | 12 November 1960 |
| 40 | Vishnu Sahay | 13 November 1960 | 12 February 1961 |
| 41 | Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | 13 February 1961 | 7 September 1962 |
| 42 | Vishnu Sahay | 8 September 1962 | 16 April 1968 |
| 43 | Braj Kumar Nehru | 17 April 1968 | 7 December 1970 |
| 44 | Parbati Kumar Goswami | 8 December 1970 | 4 January 1971 |
| 45 | Braj Kumar Nehru | 5 January 1971 | 18 September 1973 |
| 46 | Lallan Prasad Singh | 19 September 1973 | 11 August 1981 |
| 47 | Prakash Mehrotra | 12 August 1981 | 28 March 1984 |
| 48 | Tribeni Sahai Misra | 29 March 1984 | 15 April 1984 |
| 49 | Bhishma Narain Singh | 16 April 1984 | 11 May 1989 |
| 50 | Harideo Joshi | 12 May 1989 | 26 July 1989 |
| 51 | Anisetti Raghuvir | 27 July 1989 | 1 May 1990 |
| 52 | Devi Das Thakur | 2 May 1990 | 16 March 1991 |
| 53 | Loknath Mishra | 17 March 1991 | 31 August 1997 |
| 54 | Srinivas Kumar Sinha | 1 September 1997 | 20 April 2003 |
| 55 | Arvind Dave | 21 April 2003 | 4 June 2003 |
| 56 | Ajai Singh | 5 June 2003 | 3 July 2008 |
| 57 | Shiv Charan Mathur | 4 July 2008 | 25 June 2009 |
| 58 | K Sankaranarayanan | 26 June 2009 | 26 July 2009 |
| 59 | Syed Sibtey Razi | 27 July 2009 | 10 December 2009 |
| 60 | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 11 November 2009 | 11 December 2014 |
| 61 | Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya | 12 December 2014 | 21 August 2016 |
| 62 | Banwarilal Purohit | 22 August 2016 | 9 October 2017 |
| 63 | Jagdish Mukhi | 10 October 2017 | 14 February 2023 |
| 64 | Gulab Chand Kataria | 22 February 2023 | 29 July 2024 |
| 65 | Lakshman Prasad Acharya | 30 July 2024 | Incumbent |