Congress Sessions
No. of Session Year Place President
1st Session 1885 Bombay Womesh
Chandra Bonnerjee
2nd Session 1886 Calcutta Dadabhai
Naoroji
3rd Session 1887 Madras Badruddin
Tyabji
4th Session 1888 Allahabad George
Yule
5th Session 1889 Bombay Sir
William Wedderburn
6th Session 1890 Calcutta Sir
Pherozeshah Mehta
7th Session 1891 Nagpur P.
Ananda Charlu
8th Session 1892 Allahabad Womesh
Chandra Bonnerjee
9th Session 1893 Lahore Dadabhai
Naoroji
10th Session 1894 Madras Alfred
Webb
11th Session 1895 Pune Surendranath
Banerjee
12th Session 1896 Calcutta Rahimtulla
M. Sayani
13th Session 1897 Amraoti (Mah.) Sir C. Sankaran Nair
14th Session 1898 Madras Ananda
Mohan Bose
15th Session 1899 Lucknow Romesh
Chander Dutta
16th Session 1900 Lahore Sir
Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar
17th Session 1901 Calcutta Sir
Dinshaw Edulji Wacha
18th Session 1902 Ahmedabad Surendranath
Banerjee
19th Session 1903 Madras Lal
Mohan Ghosh
20th Session 1904 Bombay Sir
Henry Cotton
21st Session 1905 Benaras Gopal
Krishna Gokhale
22nd Session 1906 Calcutta Dadabhai
Naoroji
Suspended 1907 Surat Dr.
Rash Behari Ghosh
23rd Session 1908 Madras Dr.
Rash Behari Ghosh
24th Session 1909 Lahore Pt.
Madan Mohan Malviya
25th Session 1910 Allahabad Sir
William Wedderburn
26th Session 1911 Calcutta Pt.
Bishan Narayan Dhar
27th Session 1912 Bankipore (Patna) Rao Bahadur Raghunath
Narasinha Modholkar
28th Session 1913 Karachi Nawab
Syed Mohammad Bahadur
29th Session 1914 Madras Bhupendra
Nath Basu
30th Session 1915 Bombay Lord
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
31st Session 1916 Lucknow Ambica
Charan Mazumdar
32nd Session 1917 Calcutta Dr.
Annie Besant
33rd Session 1918 New Delhi Pt.
Madan Mohan Malviya
Special Session 1918 Bombay Syed
Hasan Imam
34th Session 1919 Amritsar Pandit
Motilal Nehru
35th Session 1920 Nagpur C.
Vijayaraghavachariar
Special Session 1920 Calcutta Lala
Lajpat Rai
36th Session 1921 Ahmedabad Hakim
Ajmal Khan
37th Session 1922 Gaya (Bihar) Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
38th Session 1923 Cocanada Maulana Mohammad Ali
Special Session 1923 New Delhi Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad
39th Session 1924 Belgaum (Karnataka) Mahatma Gandhi
40th Session 1925 Cawnpore Mrs.
Sarojini Naidu
41st Session 1926 Gauhati S.
Srinivasa Iyengar
42nd Session 1927 Madras Dr.
M. A. Ansari
43rd Session 1928 Calcutta Pt.
Motilal Nehru
44th Session 1929 Lahore Pt.
Jawaharlal Nehru
45th Session 1931 Karachi Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel
46th Session (Banned) 1932 New Delhi (without
President)
Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya was elected as President
47th Session (Banned) 1933 Calcutta (Mrs.
Nellie Sengupta presided)
Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya was again elected President.
48th Session 1934 Bombay Dr.
Rajendra Prasad
49th Session 1936 Lucknow Pt.
Jawaharlal Nehru
50th Session 1937 Faizpur Pt.
Jawaharlal Nehru
51st Session 1938 Haripura Subhas
Chandra Bose
52nd Session 1939 Tripuri Subhas
Chandra Bose
53rd Session 1940 Ramgarh Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad
54th Session 1946 Meerut Acharya
J. B. Kripalani
55th Session 1948 Jaipur Dr.
Pattabhi Sitaramayya
56th Session 1950 Nasik Purshottam
Das Tandon
57th Session 1951 New Delhi Pt.
Jawaharlal Nehru
58th Session 1953 Hyderabad Pt.
Jawaharlal Nehru
59th Session 1954 Kalyani Pt.
Jawaharlal Nehru
60th Session 1955 Avadi (Madras) U. N. Dhebar
61st Session 1956 Amritsar U.
N. Dhebar
62nd Session 1957 Indore U.
N. Dhebar
63rd Session 1958 Gauhati U.
N. Dhebar
64th Session 1959 Nagpur U.
N. Dhebar
65th Session 1960 Bangalore Neelam
Sanjeeva Reddy
66th Session 1961 Bhavnagar Neelam
Sanjeeva Reddy
67th Session 1962 Patna Neelam
Sanjeeva Reddy
68th Session 1964 Bhubaneshwar K. Kamaraj
69th Session 1965 Durgapur K.
Kamaraj
70th Session 1966 Jaipur K.
Kamaraj
71st Session 1968 Hyderabad S.
Nijalingappa
72nd Session 1969 Faridabad S.
Nijalingappa
73rd Session 1969 Bombay Babu
Jagjivan Ram
74th Session 1972 Calcutta Dr.
Shankar Dayal Sharma
75th Session 1975 Chandigarh Dev Kanta Borooah