List of Governors of Himachal Pradesh
The following table lists the governors of Himachal Pradesh with their respective terms of office. The area of Himachal Pradesh became a centrally administered part of the Indian Union on April 15, 1948 as Punjab Hill States and was classified as a C state from 1950. On November 1, 1956, it became Union territory . Until 1952 the highest office was that of Chief Commissioner, then until 1971 that of Lieutenant Governor . In 1971, Himachal Pradesh was granted state status and has been headed by a governor ever since.
# | Surname | Taking office | Term expires |
Chief Commissioner | |||
1 | Nanalal Chamanlal Mehta (1892-1958) | April 25, 1948 | January 9, 1950 |
2 | Edward Penderel Moon (1905-1987) | January 10, 1950 | March 29, 1951 |
3 | Bhagwan Sahay (1905-1986) | March 30, 1951 | February 29, 1952 |
Lieutenant Governor | |||
1 | Himmat Singh (1897–1973) | March 1, 1952 | December 31, 1954 |
2 | Bajrang Bahadur Singh | January 1, 1955 | August 13, 1963 |
3 | Bhagwan Sahay (1905-1986) | August 14, 1963 | February 25, 1966 |
4th | V. Viswanathan (1909-1987) | February 26, 1966 | May 6, 1967 |
5 | Om parkash | May 7, 1967 | May 15, 1967 |
6th | Kanwar Bahadur Singh (1910-2007) | May 16, 1967 | January 24, 1971 |
Governor | |||
1 | S. Chakravarty | January 25, 1971 | February 16, 1977 |
2 | Aminuddin Ahmad Khan (1911–1983) | 17th February 1977 | August 25, 1981 |
3 | Ashok Nath Banerjee (* 1917) | August 26, 1981 | April 15, 1983 |
4th | Hokishe Sema (1921-2007) | April 16, 1983 | March 7, 1986 |
5 | Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai (1930-2004) | March 8, 1986 | April 16, 1986 |
6th | Rustom Khushro Shapoorjee Ghandhi (* 1924) | April 17, 1986 | 1st December 1987 |
7th | Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney (1923-2014) | 2nd December 1987 | January 10, 1988 |
8th | Rustom Khushro Shapoorjee Ghandhi (* 1924) | January 11, 1988 | December 19, 1989 |
9 | Hari Anand Barari (* 1929) | December 20, 1989 | January 12, 1990 |
10 | Rustom Khushro Shapoorjee Ghandhi (* 1924) | January 13, 1990 | February 15, 1990 |
11 | B. Rachaiah (1922-2000) | February 16, 1990 | December 19, 1990 |
12 | Virendra Verma (1916-2009) | December 20, 1990 | January 29, 1993 |
13 | Surendra Nath (1926-1994) | January 30, 1993 | February 10, 1993 |
14th | Bali Ram Bhagat (1922-2011) | February 11, 1993 | June 29, 1993 |
15th | Gulsher Ahmed (1921-2002) | June 30, 1993 | November 26, 1993 |
16 | Surendra Nath (1926-1994) | November 27, 1993 | July 9, 1994 |
17th | V. Ratnam (* 1932) | July 10, 1994 | July 29, 1994 |
18th | Sudhakarrao Naik (1934-2001) | July 30, 1994 | 17th September 1995 |
19th | Mahavir Prasad (1939-2010) | September 18, 1995 | November 16, 1995 |
20th | Sheila Kaul (1915-2015) | November 17, 1995 | April 22, 1996 |
21st | Mahavir Prasad (1939-2010) | April 23, 1996 | July 25, 1997 |
22nd | VS Ramadevi (1934-2013) | July 26, 1997 | December 1, 1999 |
23 | Vishnu Kant Shastri (1929-2005) | December 2, 1999 | November 23, 2000 |
24 | Suraj Bhan (1928-2006) | November 24, 2000 | May 7, 2003 |
25th | Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje (* 1939) | May 8, 2003 | July 18, 2008 |
26th | Prabha Rau (1935-2010) | July 19, 2008 | January 24, 2010 |
27 | Urmila Singh (* 1946) | January 25, 2010 | January 24, 2015 |
28 | Kalyan Singh (* 1932) | January 28, 2015 | August 12, 2015 |
29 | Acharya Devvrat (* 1959) | August 12, 2015 | July 21, 2019 |
30th | Kalraj Mishra (* 1941) | July 21, 2019 | September 10, 2019 |
31 | Bandaru Dattatreya (* 1947) | September 11, 2019 | in office |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
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