1885 - Bombay: W.C. Bonnerjee
1886 - Calcutta: Dadabhai Naoroji
1887 - Madras: Badruddin Tyabji
1888 - Allahabad: George Yule
1889 - Bombay: Sir William Wedderburn
1890 - Calcutta: Pherozeshah Mehta
1891 - Nagpur: P. Ananda Charlu
1892 - Allahabad: W.C. Bonnerjee
1893 - Lahore: Dadabhai Naoroji
1894 - Madras: Alfred Webb
1895 - Poona: Surendranath Banerjee
1896 - Calcutta: Rahimtulla M. Sayani
1897 - Amraoti: C. Sankaran Nair
1898 - Madras: Anandamohan Bose
1899 - Lucknow: Romesh Chunder Dutt
1900 - Lahore: N.G. Chandavarkar
1901 - Calcutta: Dinshaw Edulji Wacha
1902 - Ahmedabad: Surendranath Banerjee
1903 - Madras: Lalmohan Ghosh
1904 - Bombay: Henry Cotton
1905 - Benares: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1906 - Calcutta: Dadabhai Naoroji
1907 - Surat: Rash Behari Ghosh (Session split; Moderates vs Extremists)
1908 - Madras: Rash Behari Ghosh
1909 - Lahore: Madan Mohan Malaviya
1910 - Allahabad: William Wedderburn
1911 - Calcutta: Bishan Narayan Dar
1912 - Bankipur: R.N. Mudholkar
1913 - Karachi: Nawab Syed Mohammad Bahadur
1914 - Madras: Bhupendra Nath Bose
1915 - Bombay: S.P. Sinha
1916 - Lucknow: Ambica Charan Mazumdar (Reunion of Moderates and Extremists)
1917 - Calcutta: Annie Besant
1918 - Bombay (Special Session): Syed Hasan Imam
1918 - Delhi: Madan Mohan Malaviya
1919 - Amritsar: Motilal Nehru
1920 - Nagpur: C. Vijayaraghavachariar
1921 - Ahmedabad: C.R. Das
1922 - Gaya: C.R. Das
1923 - Delhi (Special Session): Abul Kalam Azad
1923 - Kakinada: Mohammad Ali Jauhar
1924 - Belgaum: Mahatma Gandhi (Only session presided by Gandhi)
1925 - Kanpur: Sarojini Naidu (First Indian woman president)
1926 - Gauhati: S. Srinivasa Iyengar
1927 - Madras: M.A. Ansari
1928 - Calcutta: Motilal Nehru
1929 - Lahore: Jawaharlal Nehru (Purna Swaraj declaration)
1930 - No session was held.
1931 - Karachi: Vallabhbhai Patel
1932 - No session due to repressive measures post-Civil Disobedience Movement.
1933 - Calcutta: Nellie Sengupta
1934 - Bombay: Rajendra Prasad
1935 - No session due to internal strife and repressive laws.
1936 - Lucknow: Jawaharlal Nehru
1937 - Faizpur: Jawaharlal Nehru (First rural session of INC)
1938 - Haripura: Subhas Chandra Bose
1939 - Tripuri: Subhas Chandra Bose (Resigned after Tripuri crisis; Rajendra Prasad took over)
1940 - Ramgarh: Abul Kalam Azad
1941-1945: No sessions due to World War II and Quit India Movement.
1946 - Meerut: J.B. Kripalani
1947 - Delhi: Acharya Kripalani (First session post-Independence)
1948 - Jaipur: Pattabhi Sitaramayya
1949 - Delhi: Pattabhi Sitaramayya
1950 - Nasik: Purushottam Das Tandon
1951 - New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru
1952 - Hyderabad: Jawaharlal Nehru
1953 - Calcutta: Jawaharlal Nehru
1954 - New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru
1955 - Avadi (Madras): U.N. Dhebar (Adopted socialist pattern of society)
1956 - Amritsar: U.N. Dhebar
1957 - Indore: U.N. Dhebar
1958 - Gauhati: U.N. Dhebar
1959 - Nagpur: Indira Gandhi (First woman president post-Independence)
1960 - Bangalore: Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
1961 - Bhavnagar: Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
1962 - Patna: Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
1963 - No session was held
1964 - Bhubaneswar: K. Kamaraj