Indian National Congress Sessions Before Independence

Session Year Place President

1st Session 1885 Bombay Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

2nd Session 1886 Calcutta Shri Dadabhai Naoroji

3rd Session 1887 Madras Badruddin Tyabji

4th Session 1888 Allahabad George Yule

5th Session 1889 Bombay Sir William Wedderburn

1890 Calcutta Pherozeshah Mehta

6th Session

7th Session 1891 Nagpur P. Ananda Charlu

8th Session 1892 Allahabad Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

9th Session 1893 Lahore Shri Dadabhai Naoroji

10th Session 1894 Madras Alfred Webb

11th Session 1895 Pune Surendranath Banerjee

12th Session 1896 Calcutta Rahimatullah M. Sayani

1897 Amraoti C. Sankaran Nair

13th Session
14th Session 1898 Madras Ananda Mohan Bose

15th Session 1899 Lucknow Romesh Chunder Dutt

16th Session 1900 Lahore N.G. Chandavarkar

17th Session 1901 Calcutta Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha

1902 Ahmedabad Surendranath Banerjee

18th Session

19th Session 1903 Madras Lal Mohan Ghosh

20th Session 1903 Bombay Sir Henry Cotton

21st Session 1905 Banaras Gopal Krishna Gokhale

22nd Session 1906 Calcutta Shri Dadabhai Naoroji

23rd Session 1907 Surat Rash Behari Ghosh

(Suspended)

23rd Session 1908 Madras Rash Behari Ghosh

24th Session 1909 Lahore Madan Mohan Malaviya

1910 Allahabad Sir William Wedderburn

25th Session

26th Session 1911 Calcutta Bishan Narayan Dar

1912 Bankipore Shri Raghunath Narasinha

27th Session Mudholkar
 1913 Karachi Nawab Syed Mohammed
28th Session Bahadur

29th Session 1914 Madras Bhupendra Nath Bose

30th Session 1915 Bombay Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

31st Session 1916 Lucknow Ambica Charan Mazumdar

32ndSession 1917 Calcutta Annie Besant

33rd Session 1918 Delhi Madan Mohan Malaviya

Special Session 1918 Bombay Syed Hasan Imam

1919 Amritsar Motilal Nehru

34th Session

35th Session 1920 Nagpur C. Vijayaraghavachariar

1921 Ahmedabad Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting

36th Session President for C.R. Das)

37th Session 1922 Gaya Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das

Special Session 1923 Delhi Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

1924 Belgaum M.K. Gandhi

39th Session

40th Session 1925 Cawnpore Mrs. Sarojini Naidu

41st Session 1926 Gawahati S. Srinivasa Iyengar

42nd Session 1927 Madras M.A. Ansari

43rd Session 1929 Calcutta Motilal Nehru

44th Session 1929 Lahore Pt Jawaharlal Nehru

45th Session 1931 Karachi Vallabbhai J. Patel

47th Session 1933 Calcutta Mrs. Nellie Sengupta

1934 Bombay Dr. Rajendra Prasad

48th Session

49th Session 1936 Lucknow Pt Jawaharlal Nehru

50th Session 1937 Faizpur Pt Jawaharlal Nehru

51st Session 1938 Haripura Subhash Chandra Bose

52nd Session 1939 Tripura Subhash Chandra Bose

53rd Session 1940 Ramgarh Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

54th Session 1946 Meerut J.B. Kripalani