history of congress with dates

Year -Presidents- Vwnuee
I. 1885 W.C. Bonnerjee Bombay
2. 1886 Dadabhai Naroji Calcutta
3. 1887 Badruddin Tyabji Madras
4. 1888 George Yule Allahabad
5. 1889 Sir William Wedderburn Bombay
6. 1890 Pherozshah Mehta Calcutta
7. 1891 P. Ananda Charlu Nagpur
8. 1892 W.C. Bonnerjee Allabad
9. 1893 Dadabhai Naroji Lahore
10. 1894 Alfred Webb Madras
II I894 S. N. Banerjea Poona
12. 1896 Rahimtulla M Sayani Calcutta
13. 1897 C.Sankaran Nair. Amravati
14. 1898 Ananda Mohan Bose Madras
15. 1899 R.C. Dull Lucknow
16. 1900 N.G. Chandavarkar Lahore
17. 1901 D.E.Wacha Calcutta
18 1902 Hasan Imam Bombay
S.N. Bonerjea Ahmedabad
19. 1903 LalMohanGhose Madras
20. 1904 Sir Henry Cotton Bombay
21. 1905 G.K. Gokhale Benaras
22. 1906 Dadabhai Naoroji Calcutta
23 1907 Dr. Rash Behari Ghosh Surat
(Suspended)
1908 Dr. Rash Behari Ghosh Madras
24. 1909 Pandit Madan Mohan Lahore
Malaviya
25. 1910 Sir William Wedderburn Allahabad
26. 1911 Pandit B.N. Dhar. Calcutta
27 1912 R.N. Modholkar Bankipore
28. 1913 Nawab Syed Mohammad Karachi
Bahadur.
29. 1914 Bhupendranuth Basu. Madras
30. 1915 Sir Satyendra Prasad Sinha. Bombay
31. 1916 Ambika Charan Majumdar Lucknow
32. 1917 Mrs. Annie Besant Calcutta
Year Presidents Venue
1918 Hassan Imam (Special session)
33. 1918 Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Delhi
34. 1919 Motilal Nehru Amritsar
35. 1920 Lala Lajpat Rai (Suspended) Calcutta
C.Vijayraghavachariar (annual) Nagpur
36 1921 C.R. Das (in prison) Ahmedabad
Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting)
37. 1922 C.R. Das Gaya
38. 1923 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Delhi
(suspended)
Maulana Mahammad Ali Golconda
(Annual)
39. 1924 Mahatma Gandhi Brlgaun
40. 1925 Mrs Sarojini Naidu. Cawnpore
41. 1926 S. Srinivasa Iyengar. Guwahati
42. 1927 Dr. M.A. Ansari Madras
43. 1928 Pandit Motilal Nehru. Calcutta
44. 1929 Jawaharlal Nehru. Lahore
1930 (No session) but
Independence Day Pledge
was adopted on 26th Jan, 1930.
45. 1931 Vallabhabhai Patel Karachi
46. 1932 R. Amritlal (session was banned)
47. 1933 Mrs. J.M. Sen Gupta Calcutta
(sesson was banned )
48. 1934 Rajendra Prasad Bombay
(Continued again for 1935)
49. 1936 Jawahar lal Nehru Lucknow
50. 1937 Jawahar lal Nehru Faizpur
51. 1938 S.C. Bose Haripura
52. 1939 S.C. Bose (Re elected for 1939) Tripuri
53. 1940 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Ramgarh
1941-45 (No sessions, caused by
arrests and jailing).
54. 1946 Acharya J. B. Kripalani Meerut
55. 1948 B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya Jaipur