| Year |
Place |
President |
| 1885 |
Bombay |
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
| 1886 |
Calcutta |
Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 1887 |
Madras |
Badruddin Tyabji |
| 1888 |
Allahabad |
George Yule |
| 1889 |
Bombay |
Sir William Wedderburn |
| 1890 |
Calcutta |
Sir Pherozeshah Mehta |
| 1891 |
Nagpur |
P. Ananda Charlu |
| 1892 |
Allahabad |
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee |
| 1893 |
Lahore |
Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 1894 |
Madras |
Alfred Webb |
| 1895 |
Poona |
Surendranath Banerjea |
| 1896 |
Calcutta |
Rahimtulla M. Sayani |
| 1897 |
Amraoti |
Sir C. Sankaran Nair |
| 1898 |
Madras |
Ananda Mohan Bose |
| 1899 |
Lucknow |
Romesh Chunder Dutt |
| 1900 |
Lahore |
Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar |
| 1901 |
Calcutta |
Sir Dinshaw Edulji Wacha |
| 1902 |
Ahmedabad |
Surendranath Banerjea |
| 1903 |
Madras |
Lalmohan Ghosh |
| 1904 |
Bombay |
Sir Henry Cotton |
| 1905 |
Benares |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| 1906 |
Calcutta |
Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 1907 |
Surat |
Rashbihari Ghosh |
| 1908 |
Madras |
Rashbihari Ghosh |
| 1909 |
Lahore |
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| 1910 |
Allahabad |
Sir William Wedderburn |
| 1911 |
Calcutta |
Pandit Bishan Narayan Dar |
| 1912 |
Bankipur |
Rao Bahadur Raghunath
Narasinha Mudholkar |
| 1913 |
Karachi |
Nawab Syed Mohammad Bahadur |
| 1914 |
Madras |
Bhupendra Nath Bose |
| 1915 |
Bombay |
Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha |
| 1916 |
Lucknow |
Ambica Charan Mazumdar |
| 1917 |
Calcutta |
Dr. Annie Besant |
| 1918 |
Bombay |
Syed Hasan Imam |
| 1918 |
Delhi (Sp. Sess.) |
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| 1919 |
Amritsar |
Pandit Motilal Nehru |
| 1920 |
Calcutta |
Lala Lajpat Rai |
| 1920 |
Nagpur (Sp. Sess.) |
C. Vijayaraghavachariar |
| 1921 |
Ahmedabad |
Hakim Ajmal Khan |
| 1922 |
Gaya |
Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das |
| 1923 |
Cocanada |
Maulana Mohammad Ali |
| 1923 |
Delhi (Sp. Sess.) |
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| 1924 |
Belgaum |
Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1925 |
Kanpur |
Sarojini Naidu |
| 1926 |
Gauhati |
S. Srinivasa Iyengar |
| 1927 |
Madras |
Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari |
| 1928 |
Calcutta |
Pandit Motilal Nehru |
| 1929 |
Lahore |
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1931 |
Karachi |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| 1932 |
Delhi |
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| 1933 |
Calcutta |
Pr. Designate - Madan Mohan Malaviya
Presided by Mrs. Nellie
Sen Gupta |
| 1934 |
Bombay |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 1935 |
Lucknow |
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1936 |
Faizpur |
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1938 |
Haripura |
Subhas Chandra Bose |
| 1939 |
Tripuri |
Subhas Chandra Bose |
| 1940 |
Ramgarh |
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| 1946 |
Meerut |
Acharya J. B. Kripalani |
| 1948 |
Jaipur |
Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya |
| 1950 |
Nasik |
Purshottam Das Tandon |
| 1951 |
New Delhi |
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1953 |
Hyderabad |
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1954 |
Kalyani (W.B.) |
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1955 |
Avadi (Madras) |
U. N. Dhebar |
| 1956 |
Amritsar |
U. N. Dhebar |
| 1957 |
Indore |
U. N. Dhebar |
| 1958 |
Gauhati |
U. N. Dhebar |
| 1959 |
Nagpur |
U. N. Dhebar |
| 1960 |
Bangalore |
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
| 1961 |
Bhavnagar |
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
| 1962 |
Patna |
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
| 1964 |
Bhubaneswar |
K. Kamaraj |
| 1965 |
Durgapur |
K. Kamaraj |
| 1966 |
Jaipur |
K. Kamaraj |
| 1968 |
Hyderabad |
S. Nijalingappa |
| 1969 |
Faridabad |
S. Nijalingappa |
| 1969 |
Bombay |
Jagjivan Ram |
| 1972 |
Calcutta |
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 1975 |
Chandigarh |
Dev Kanta Borooah |
| 1978 |
New Delhi |
Indira Gandhi |
| 1983 |
Calcutta |
Indira Gandhi |
| 1985 |
Bombay |
Rajiv Gandhi |
| 1992 |
Tirupati |
P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| 1997 |
Calcutta |
Sitaram
Kesri |
