# List of governors of Nagaland

this article can be expanded in similar fashion to [[List of Chief Ministers of Kerala]]
The governor of Nagaland is the head of state of Nagaland. The governor is appointed by the president of India.

## 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.

## Governors of Nagaland

| 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 | 1 December 1963 |

## Governors of Nagaland

| # | Name | Took office | Left office |
| 42 | Vishnu Sahay | 1 December 1963 | 16 April 1968 |
| 43 | Braj Kumar Nehru | 17 April 1968 | 18 September 1973 |
| 44 | Lallan Prasad Singh | 19 September 1973 | 9 August 1981 |
| 45 | S. M. H. Burney | 10 August 1981 | 12 June 1984 |
| 46 | K. V. Krishna Rao | 13 June 1984 | 19 July 1989 |
| 47 | Gopal Singh | 20 July 1989 | 3 May 1990 |
| 48 | M. M. Thomas | 9 May 1990 | 12 April 1992 |
| 49 | Loknath Mishra | 13 April 1992 | 1 October 1993 |
| 50 | V. K. Nayar | 2 October 1993 | 4 August 1994 |
| 51 | Oudh Narayan Shrivastava | 5 August 1994 | 11 November 1996 |
| 52 | Om Prakash Sharma | 12 November 1996 | 27 January 2002 |
| 53 | Shyamal Datta | 28 January 2002 | 2 February 2007 |
| 54 | K. Sankaranarayanan | 3 February 2007 | 28 July 2009 |
| 55 | Gurbachan Jagat | 28 July 2009 | 14 Oct 2009 |
| 56 | Nikhil Kumar | 15 Oct 2009 | 20 March 2013 |
| 57 | Ashwani Kumar | 21 March 2013 | 27 June 2014 |
| 58 | Krishan Kant Paul ‡ | 2 July 2014 | 19 July 2014 |
| 59 | Padmanabha Acharya | 19 July 2014 | 31 July 2019 |
| 60 | R. N. Ravi | 1 August 2019 | 17 September 2021 |
| 61 | Jagdish Mukhi ‡ | 17 September 2021 | 19 February 2023 |
| 62 | La. Ganesan | 20 February 2023 | Incumbent |