List of Governors of Assam

The governor acts as the nominal head of a state whereas the real power lies with the Chief minister of the concerned states and his/her councils of ministers. 

The primary function of the governor is to preserve, protect and defend the constitution and the law as incorporated in his/her oath of office under Article 159 of the Indian constitution in the administration of the State affairs. 

Here is the list of governors of Assam since independence. 

Sr.No.	Name of Governors	From	To
1	Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari	Aug 15, 1947	Dec 28, 1948
2	Ronald Francis Lodge	Dec 30, 1948	Feb 16, 1949
3	Sri Prakasa	Feb 16, 1949	May 27, 1950
4	Jairam Das Daulatram	May 27, 1950	May 15, 1956
5	Saiyid Fazal Ali	May 15, 1956	Aug 22, 1959
6	Chandreswar Prasad Sinha	Aug 23, 1959	Oct 14, 1959
7	Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh	Oct 14, 1959	Nov 12, 1960
8	Vishnu Sahay	Nov 12, 1960	Jan 13, 1961
9	Mallannah Shrinagesh	Jan 13, 1961	Sep 7, 1962
10	Vishnu Sahay	Sep 7, 1962	Apr 17, 1968
11	Braj Kumar Nehru	Apr 17, 1968	Dec 7, 1970
12	Justice P. K. Goswami	Dec 8, 1970	Jan 4, 1971
13	Braj Kumar Nehru	Jan 5, 1971	Sep 18, 1973
14	Lallan Prasad Singh	Sep 19, 1973	Aug 11, 1981
15	Prakash Chandra Mehrotra	Aug 12, 1981	Mar 28, 1984
16	Justice T. S. Mishra	Mar 29, 1984	Apr 15, 1984
17	Bhishma Narain Singh	Apr 16, 1984	May 11, 1989
18	Harideo Joshi	May 12, 1989	Jul 26, 1989
19	Justice Anisetti Raghuvir	Jul 27, 1989	May 1, 1990
20	Justice Devi Das Thakur	May 2, 1990	Mar 16, 1991
21	Loknath Mishra	Mar 17, 1991	Aug 31, 1997
22	Srinivas Kumar Sinha	Sep 1, 1997	Jun 4, 2003
23	Ajai Singh	Jun 5, 2003	Jul 3, 2008
24	Shiv Charan Mathur	Jul 4, 2008	Jun 25, 2009
25	K Sankaranarayanan	Jun 26, 2009	Jul 26, 2009
26	Syed Sibtey Razi	Jul 27, 2009	Dec 10, 2009
27	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Dec 11, 2009	Dec 11, 2014
28	Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya	Dec 12, 2014	Aug 22, 2016
29	Banwarilal Purohit	Aug 22, 2016	10 October 2017
30	Jagdish Mukhi	10 October 2017	Present