Session Place Date President
1st Session Bombay Dec. 28-30, 1885 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
2nd Session Calcutta Dec. 27-30, 1886 Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
3rd Session Madras Dec. 27-30, 1887 Badruddin Tyabji
4th Session Allahabad Dec. 26-29, 1888 George Yule
5th Session Bombay Dec. 26-28, 1889 Sir William Wedderburn
6th Session Calcutta Dec. 26-30, 1890 Pherozeshah Mehta
7th Session Nagpur Dec. 28-30, 1891 P. Ananda Charlu
8th Session Allahabad Dec. 28-30, 1892 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
9th Session Lahore Dec. 27-30, 1893 Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
10th Session Madras Dec. 26-29, 1894 Alfred Webb
11th Session Pune Dec. 27-30, 1895 Surendranath Banerjee
12th Session Calcutta Dec. 28-31, 1896 Rahimatullah M. Sayani
13th Session Amraoti Dec. 27-29, 1897 C. Sankaran Nair
14th Session Madras Dec. 29-31, 1898 Ananda Mohan Bose
15th Session Lucknow Dec. 27-29, 1899 Romesh Chunder Dutt
16th Session Lahore Dec. 27-29, 1900 N.G. Chandavarkar
17th Session Calcutta Dec. 26-28, 1901 Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha
18th Session Ahmedabad Dec. 28-30, 1902 Surendranath Banerjee
19th Session Madras Dec. 28-30, 1903 Lal Mohan Ghosh
20th Session Bombay Dec. 26-28, 1903 Sir Henry Cotton
21st Session Banaras Dec. 27-30, 1905 Gopal Krishna Gokhale
22nd Session Calcutta Dec. 26-29, 1906 Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
23rd Session
Surat Dec. 26-27, 1907 Rash Behari Ghosh
(Suspended)
23rd Session Madras Dec. 28-30, 1908 Rash Behari Ghosh
24th Session Lahore Dec. 27-29, 1909 Madan Mohan Malaviya
25th Session Allahabad Dec. 26-29, 1910 Sir William Wedderburn
26th Session Calcutta Dec. 26-28, 1911 Bishan Narayan Dar
Shri Raghunath Narasinha
27th Session Bankipore Dec. 26-28, 1912
Mudholkar
Nawab Syed Mohammed
28th Session Karachi Dec. 26-28, 1913
Bahadur
29th Session Madras Apr. 14-15, 1914 Bhupendra Nath Bose
30th Session Bombay Dec. 27-29, 1915 Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
31st Session Lucknow Dec. 26-30, 1916 Ambica Charan Mazumdar
32nd Session Calcutta Dec. 26-29, 1917 Annie Besant
33rd Session Delhi Dec. 26-30, 1918 Madan Mohan Malaviya
(Special Session) Bombay Aug. 29-01, 1918 Romesh Chunder Dutt
34th Session Amritsar Dec. 26-30, 1919 Motilal Nehru
35th Session Nagpur Dec. 26-30, 1920 C. Vijayaraghavachariar
Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting
36th Session Ahmedabad Dec. 27-28, 1921
President for C.R. Das)
37th Session Gaya Dec. 26-31, 1922 Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
Special Session Delhi Sep. 04-08, 1923 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
39th Session Belgaum Dec. 26-27, 1924 M.K. Gandhi
40th Session Cawnpore Apr. 15-17, 1925 Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
41st Session Gawahati Dec. 26-28, 1926 S. Srinivasa Iyengar
42nd Session Madras Dec. 26-28, 1927 M.A. Ansari
43rd Session Calcutta Dec. 29-01, 1929 Motilal Nehru
44th Session Lahore Apr. 16-18, 1929 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
45th Session Karachi Mar. 21-31, 1931 Vallabbhai J. Patel
47th Session Calcutta Sep. 12-14, 1933 Mrs. Nellie Sengupta
48th Session Bombay Oct. 24-28, 1934 Dr. Rajendra Prasad
49th Session Lucknow Jun. 18-20, 1936 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
50th Session Faizpur Jul. 12-14, 1937 Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
51st Session Haripura Feb. 19-21, 1938 Subhash Chandra Bose
52nd Session Tripura Mar. 10-12, 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose
53rd Session Ramgarh Mar. 19-20, 1940 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
54th Session Meerut Nov. 23-24, 1946 J.B. Kripalani