# List of governors of Tripura

This is a list of the governors of Tripura, a state in northeast India, since its inception as a state on 21 January 1972.

## Powers and functions

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

## List of governors of Tripura

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

### governors

| 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

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

| 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 | 20 January 1972 |

### Governors of Tripura

| No | Name | Took office | Left office | Appointed by |
| 45 | B. K. Nehru | 21 January 1972 | 22 September 1973 | V. V. Giri |
| 46 | L. P. Singh | 23 September 1973 | 13 August 1981 | V. V. Giri |
| 47 | S. M. H. Burney | 14 August 1981 | 13 June 1984 | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
| 48 | K. V. Krishna Rao | 14 June 1984 | 11 July 1989 | Zail Singh |
| 49 | Sultan Singh | 12 July 1989 | 11 February 1990 | R. Venkataraman |
| 50 | K. V. Raghunatha Reddy | 12 February 1990 | 14 August 1993 | R. Venkataraman |
| 51 | Romesh Bhandari | 15 August 1993 | 15 June 1995 | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 52 | Siddheshwar Prasad | 16 June 1995 | 22 June 2000 | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 53 | Krishna Mohan Seth | 23 June 2000 | 31 May 2003 | K. R. Narayan |
| 54 | Dinesh Nandan Sahay | 2 June 2003 | 14 October 2009 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 55 | Kamla Beniwal | 15 October 2009 | 26 November 2009 | Pratibha Patil |
| 56 | Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil | 27 November 2009 | 21 March 2013 | Pratibha Patil |
| 57 | Devanand Konwar | 25 March 2013 | 29 June 2014 | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 58 | Vakkom Purushothaman | 30 June 2014 | 14 July 2014 | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 59 | Padmanabha Acharya | 21 July 2014 | 19 May 2015 | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 60 | Tathagata Roy | 20 May 2015 | 25 August 2018 | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 61 | Kaptan Singh Solanki | 25 August 2018 | 28 July 2019 | Ramnath Kovind |
| 62 | Ramesh Bais | 29 July 2019 | 13 July 2021 | Ramnath Kovind |
| 63 | Satyadev Narayan Arya | 14 July 2021 | 25 October 2023 | Ramnath Kovind |
| 64 | Nallu Indrasena Reddy | 26 October 2023 | Incumbent | Draupadi Murmu |