List of presidents of the party[edit]

Year of Presidency Place of Conference

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

29 December 1844 1906

1885

Bombay

Dadabhai Naoroji

4 September 1825 1917

1886

Calcutta

Badruddin Tyabji

10 October 1844 1906

1887

Madras

George Yule

18291892

1888

Allahabad

William Wedderburn

18381918

1889

Bombay

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Pherozeshah Mehta

4 August 1845 1915

1890

Calcutta

Anandacharlu

August 1843 1908

1891

Nagpur

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

29 December 1844 1906

1892

Allahabad

Dadabhai Naoroji

4 September 1848 1925

1893

Lahore

Alfred Webb

18341908

1894

Madras

Surendranath Banerjee

10 November 1848 1925

1895

Poona

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Rahimtulla M. Sayani

5 April 1847 1902

1896

Calcutta

C. Sankaran Nair

11 July 1857 1934

1897

Amraoti

Anandamohan Bose

23 September 1847 1906

1898

Madras

Romesh Chunder Dutt

13 August 1848 1909

1899

Lucknow

N. G. Chandavarkar

2 December 1855 1923

1900

Lahore

Dinshaw Edulji Wacha

2 August 1844 1936

1901

Calcutta

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Surendranath Banerjee

10 November 1825 1917

1902

Ahmedabad

Lalmohan Ghosh

18481909

1903

Madras

Henry Cotton

18451915

1904

Bombay

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

9 May 1866 1915

1905

Benares

Dadabhai Naoroji

4 September 1825 1917

1906

Calcutta

Rashbihari Ghosh

23 December 1845 1921

1907

Surat

Rashbihari Ghosh

23 December 1845 1921

1908

Madras

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Madan Mohan Malaviya

25 December 1861 1946

1909

Lahore

William Wedderburn

18381918

1910

Allahabad

Bishan Narayan Dar

18641916

1911

Calcutta

Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar

18571921

1912

Bankipur

Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur

?- 1919

1913

Karachi

Bhupendra Nath Bose

18591924

1914

Madras

Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

March 1863 1928

1915

Bombay

Ambica Charan Mazumdar

18501922

1916

Lucknow

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Annie Besant

1 October 1847 1933

1917

Calcutta

Madan Mohan Malaviya

25 December 1861 1946

1918

Delhi

Syed Hasan Imam

31 August 1871 1933

1918

Bombay (Special Session)

Motilal Nehru

6 May 1861 6 February 1931

1919

Amritsar

Lala Lajpat Rai

28 January 1865 17 November 1928

1920

Calcutta (Special Session)

C. Vijayaraghavachariar

1852 19 April 1944

1920

Nagpur

Hakim Ajmal Khan

1863 29 December 1927

1921

Ahmedabad

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das

5 November 1870 16 June 1925

1922

Gaya

Mohammad Ali Jouhar

10 December 1878 4 January 1931

1923

Kakinada

Abul Kalam Azad

1888 22 February 1958

1923

Delhi (Special Session)

Mohandas Gandhi

2 October 1869 30 January 1948

1924

Belgaum

Sarojini Naidu

13 February 1879 2 March 1949

1925

Kanpur

S. Srinivasa Iyengar

September 11, 1874 19 May 1941

1926

Gauhati

Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari

25 December 1880 10 May 1936

1927

Madras

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Motilal Nehru

6 May 1861 6 February 1931

1928

Calcutta

Jawaharlal Nehru

14 November 1889 27 May 1964

1929 & 30

Lahore

Vallabhbhai Patel

31 October 1875 15 December 1950

1931

Karachi

Madan Mohan Malaviya

25 December 1861 1946

1932

Delhi

Madan Mohan Malaviya

25 December 1861 1946

1933

Calcutta

Nellie Sengupta

18861973

1933

Calcutta

Rajendra Prasad

3 December 1884 28 February 1963

1934 & 35

Bombay

Jawaharlal Nehru

14 November 1889 27 May 1964

1936

Lucknow

Jawaharlal Nehru

14 November 1889 27 May 1964

1936& 37

Faizpur

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Subhas Chandra Bose

23 January 1897 Unknown

1938

Haripura

Subhas Chandra Bose

23 January 1897 Unknown

1939

Tripuri

Abul Kalam Azad

1888 22 February 1958

194046

Ramgarh

J. B. Kripalani

1888 19 March 1982

1947

Meerut

Pattabhi Sitaraimayya

24 December 1880 17 December 1959

1948 & 49

Jaipur

Purushottam Das Tandon

1 August 1882 1 July 1961

1950

Nasik

Jawaharlal Nehru

14 November 1889 27 May 1964

1951 & 52

Delhi

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Jawaharlal Nehru

14 November 1889 27 May 1964

1953

Hyderabad

Jawaharlal Nehru

14 November 1889 27 May 1964

1954

Calcutta

U. N. Dhebar

21 September 1905 1977

1955

Avadi

U. N. Dhebar

21 September 1905 1977

1956

Amritsar

U. N. Dhebar

21 September 1905 1977

1957

Indore

U. N. Dhebar

21 September 1905 1977

1958

Gauhati

U. N. Dhebar

21 September 1905 1977

1959

Nagpur

Indira Gandhi

19 November 1917 31 October 1984

1959

Delhi

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

19 May 1913 1 June 1996

1960

Bangalore

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

19 May 1913 1 June 1996

1961

Bhavnagar

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

19 May 1913 1 June 1996

1962 & 63

Patna

K. Kamaraj

15 July 1903 2 October 1975

1964

Bhubaneswar

K. Kamaraj

15 July 1903 2 October 1975

1965

Durgapur

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

K. Kamaraj

15 July 1903 2 October 1975

1966 & 67

Jaipur

S. Nijalingappa

10 December 1902 9 August 2000

1968

Hyderabad

S. Nijalingappa

10 December 1902 9 August 2000

1969

Faridabad

Jagjivan Ram

5 April 1908 6 July 1986

1970 & 71

Bombay

Shankar Dayal Sharma

19 August 1918 26 December 1999

1972 74

Calcutta

Dev Kant Baruah

22 February 1914 1996

1975 77

Chandigarh

Name of President

Portrait

Life span

Year of Presidency

Place of Conference

Indira Gandhi

19 November 1917 31 October 1984

1978 83

Delhi

Indira Gandhi

19 November 1917 31 October 1984

1983-84

Calcutta

Rajiv Gandhi

20 August 1944 21 May 1991

1985-91

Bombay

P. V. Narasimha Rao

28 June 1921 23 December 2004

1992-96

Tirupati

Sitaram Kesri

November 1919 24 October 2000

1997-98

Calcutta

Sonia Gandhi

9 December 1946

1998present

Calcutta