List of governors of Andhra Pradesh

Article 157 and Article 158 of the Constitution of India specify eligibility requirements for the post of governor. They are as follows:

A governor must:

• be a citizen of India.
• be at least 35 years of age.
• not be a member of either house of the parliament or house of the state legislature.
• not hold any office of profit.

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 Saasana Sabha (Legislative Assembly) or Saasana Mandali (Legislative Council), and
• Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the Governor.

Apart from enjoying various constitutional powers, the governor of Andhra Pradesh is the ex-officio Chancellor of the state universities of Andhra Pradesh. The universities include Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Adikavi Nannaya University, Andhra University, Cluster University, Dr. Abdul Haq Urdu University, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Dr. N.T.R. University of Health Sciences, Dr. YSR Architecture & Fine Arts University, Dr. Y.S.R. Horticultural University, Dravidian University, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Anantapur), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Kakinada), Krishna University, Rayalaseema University, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Sri Venkateswara University, Sri Venkateswara Vedic University, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University, Vikrama Simhapuri University and Yogi Vemana University

Governors of Andhra State, Andhra State consisted of Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. This state was carved out of Madras State in 1953.

Data from Andhra Pradesh State Portal.^[1]

#	Governor	Portrait	Term of the office			Previous post	Appointed by
			From	To	Time of office
1	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi		1 October 1953	31 October 1956	1,127 days	Governor of Punjab	Rajendra Prasad

On 1 November 1956, Hyderabad State ceased to exist; its Gulbarga and Aurangabad divisions were merged into Mysore State and Bombay State respectively. Its remaining Telugu-speaking portion, was merged with Andhra State to form the new state of United Andhra Pradesh. The state was bifurcated into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states on 2 June 2014 by Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.

#	Governor	Portrait	Term of the office			Previous post	Appointed by
			From	To	Time of office
1	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi		1 November 1956	1 August 1957	1,005 days	Governor of Andhra state	Rajendra Prasad
2	Bhim Sen Sachar		1 August 1957	8 September 1962	1,865 days	Governor of Odisha
3	S. M. Shrinagesh		8 September 1962	4 May 1964	605 days	Governor of Assam	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
4	Pattom A. Thanu Pillai		4 May 1964	11 April 1968	1,439 days	Governor of Punjab
5	Khandubhai Kasanji Desai	–	11 April 1968	25 January 1975	2,481 days	Minister of Labour	Zakir Husain
6	S. Obul Reddy	–	25 January 1975	10 January 1976	351 days	Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
7	Mohan Lal Sukhadia		10 January 1976	16 June 1976	159 days	Governor of Karnataka
8	Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare		16 June 1976	17 February 1977	247 days	Governor of Bihar
9	B. J. Divan	–	17 February 1977	5 May 1977	78 days	Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court	B. D. Jatti (acting president)
10	Sharda Mukherjee		5 May 1977	15 August 1978	468 days	Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
11	K. C. Abraham	–	15 August 1978	15 August 1983	1,827 days		Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
12	Thakur Ram Lal		15 August 1983	29 August 1984	381 days	Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh	Giani Zail Singh
13	Shankar Dayal Sharma		29 August 1984	26 November 1985	455 days	President of Indian National Congress
14	Kumudben Joshi		26 November 1985	7 February 1990	1,535 days	Deputy Minister of Health and Family Welfare
15	Krishan Kant		7 February 1990	22 August 1997	2,754 days		R. Venkataraman
16	Gopala Ramanujam	–	22 August 1997	24 November 1997	95 days	Governor of Odisha	K. R. Narayanan
17	C. Rangarajan		24 November 1997	3 January 2003	1,867 days	Governor of Reserve Bank of India
18	Surjit Singh Barnala		3 January 2003	4 November 2004	672 days	Governor of Uttarakhand	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
19	Sushilkumar Shinde		4 November 2004	29 January 2006	452 days	Chief Minister of Maharashtra
20	Rameshwar Thakur		29 January 2006	22 August 2007	571 days	Governor of Odisha
21	N. D. Tiwari		22 August 2007	27 December 2009	859 days	Chief Minister of Uttarakhand	Pratibha Patil
Acting	E. S. L. Narasimhan		28 December 2009	22 January 2010	3,496 days	Governor of Chhattisgarh
22			23 January 2010	1 June 2014
			2 June 2014[note 1][i]	23 July 2019			Pranab Mukherjee
23	Biswabhusan Harichandan		24 July 2019	23 February 2023	1,311 days	Member of Odisha Legislative Assembly	Ram Nath Kovind
24	Syed Abdul Nazeer		24 February 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 113 days	Judge of the Supreme Court of India	Droupadi Murmu

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