List of governors of Assam

This is a list of governors of Assam.

The Governor of Assam is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of Assam.  The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years.

 Governors of Assam (1947present)

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 Died in office
 Transferred
 Resigned/removed

Color key
 indicates acting/additional charge

 # Portrait Name(borndied) Home state Tenure in office Appointer(President) From To Time in office 1 70px Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari  Hyderabad 1947 1948  Lord Mountbatten  70px Sir Ronald Francis Lodge(Acting)  1948 1949  C. Rajagopalachari 2 70px Sri Prakasa Uttar Pradesh 1949 1950  3 70px Jairamdas Daulatram Maharashtra 1950 1956  Rajendra Prasad 4 70px Saiyid Fazl Ali Bihar 1956 1959   70px Chandreswar Prasad Sinha(Acting) Bihar 1959 1959  5 70px S. M. Shrinagesh  Maharashtra 1959 1960   70px Vishnu Sahay(Acting) Uttar Pradesh 1960 1961  (5) 70px S. M. Shrinagesh  Maharashtra 1961 1962  6 70px Vishnu Sahay Uttar Pradesh 1962 1968  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 7 70px Braj Kumar Nehru Uttar Pradesh 1968 1970  Zakir Husain  70px Parbati Kumar Goswami(Acting) Assam 1970 1971  V. V. Giri (7) 70px Braj Kumar Nehru Uttar Pradesh 1971 1973  8 70px Lallan Prasad Singh Bihar 1973 1981  9 70px Prakash Mehrotra Uttar Pradesh 1981 1984  Neelam Sanjiva Reddy  70px Tribeni Sahai Misra(Acting) Uttar Pradesh 1984 1984  Zail Singh 10 70px Bhishma Narain Singh Bihar 1984 1989  11 70px Hari Dev Joshi Rajasthan 1989 1989  Ramaswamy Venkataraman  70px Anisetti Raghuvir(Acting) Andhra Pradesh 1989 1990  12 70px Devi Das Thakur Jammu and Kashmir 1990 1991  13 70px Lokanath Misra Orissa 1991 1997  14 70px Srinivas Kumar Sinha  Bihar 1997 2003  K. R. Narayanan  70px Arvind Dave(Additional Charge) Uttar Pradesh 2003 2003  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 15 70px Ajai Singh Rajasthan 2003 2008  16 70px Shiv Charan Mathur Rajasthan 2008 2009  Pratibha Patil  70px Kateekal Sankaranarayanan(Additional Charge) Kerala 2009 2009  17 70px Syed Sibtey Razi Uttar Pradesh 2009 2009  18 70px Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Odisha 2009 2014   70px Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya(Additional Charge) Karnataka 2014 2016  Pranab Mukherjee 19 70x70px Banwarilal Purohit Maharashtra 2016 2017  20 91x91px Jagdish Mukhi Delhi 2017 2023  Ram Nath Kovind 21 70px Gulab Chand Kataria Rajasthan 2023 2024  Droupadi Murmu 22 70px Lakshman Prasad Acharya Uttar Pradesh 2024 Incumbent 

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