| 1885- Bombay (Sir Tej Pal Sanskrit Vidyalaya) | W.C. Bonnerjee | 72 delegates attended, Kadambari Ganguli was the first women member |
| 1886- Calcutta | Dadabhai Naoroji | First Parsi President |
| 1887- Madras | Badr-ud-din Tyabji | First Muslim President, appeal to Muslim to join |
| 1888- Allahabad | George Yule | First English President |
| 1889- Bombay | Sir William Wedderburn | – |
| 1890- Calcutta | Sir Pheroz Shah Mehta | – |
| 1891- Nagpur | P. Ananda Charlu | – |
| 1892- Allahabad | W.C. Bonnerjee | – |
| 1893- Lahore | Dadabhai Naoroji | – |
| 1894- Madras | Alfred Webb | Irish member of the British Parliament |
| 1895- Poona | Surendra Nath Banerjee | – |
| 1896- Calcutta | M. Rahimtulla Sayani | – |
| 1897- Amravati | C. Sankaran Nair | – |
| 1898- Madras | Anand Mohan Bose | – |
| 1899- Lucknow | Romesh Chandra Dutt | – |
| 1900- Lahore | N.G. Chandravarkar | – |
| 1901- Calcutta | Dinshaw E. Wacha | – |
| 1902- Ahmedabad | Surendra Nath Banerjee | – |
| 1903- Madras | Lal Mohan Ghosh | – |
| 1904- Bombay | Sir Henry Cotton | – |
| 1905- Banaras | Gopal Krishna Gokhale | – |
| 1906- Calcutta | Dadabhai Naoroji | The resolution of Swaraj was passed |
| 1907- Surat | Dr. Rashbehari Ghosh | Congress Party splits into Moderates and Extremists |
| 1908- Madras | Dr. Rashbehari Ghosh | – |
| 1909- Lahore | Madan Mohan Malaviya | – |
| 1910- Allahabad | Sir William Wedderburn | – |
| 1911- Calcutta | Bishan Narayan Dhar | – |
| 1912- Patna | R.N. Mudholkar | – |
| 1913- Karachi | Nawab Syed Mohammad Bahadur | – |
| 1914- Madras | Bhupendra Nath Basu | – |
| 1915- Bombay | Sir S.P. Sinha | – |
| 1916- Lucknow | Ambika Charan Mazumdar | First readmission of Extremist into INC; Secondly a bond of alliance created between the Congress and the Muslim League |
| 1917- Calcutta | Annie Besant | First Woman President |
| 1918- Bombay (special session) and Delhi | Saiyed Hassan Imam (Bombay) and Madan Mohan Malaviya (Delhi) | – |
| 1919- Amritsar | Motilal Nehru | – |
| 1920- Nagpur | C. Vijaya Raghava Chariyar | Changes in the Constitution of Congress |
| 1921- Ahmedabad | C.R. Das in prison (acting President Hakim Ajmal Khan) | – |
| 1922- Gaya | C.R. Das | Split within INC |
| 1923- Delhi (special session) and Kakinada (also called Cocanada) | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Delhi) and Maulana Mohammad Ali (Kakinada) | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Youngest President |
| 1924- Belgaum | Mahatma Gandhi | – |
| 1925- Kanpur | Mrs Sarojini Naidu | First Indian Woman President |
| 1926- Gauhati | Srinivasa Iyengar | – |
| 1927- Madras | Dr M.A. Ansari | – |
| 1928- Calcutta | Motilal Nehru | All India Youth Congress formed |
| 1929- Lahore | Jawaharlal Nehru | Poorna Swaraj Resolution |
| 1930- No Session | Jawaharlal Nehru continued as the President | On account of the Civil Disobedience Movement, no Congress session could be held in 1930 |
| 1931- Karachi | Vallabhbhai Patel | Resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Policy was passed |
| 1932- Delhi | R.D. Amritlal | – |
| 1933- Calcutta | M.M. Malaviya arrested before the session so Nellie Sengupta Presided | – |
| 1934- Bombay | Rajendra Prasad | Formation of Congress Socialist Party |
| 1935- No Session | Rajendra Prasad continued as the President | – |
| 1936- Lucknow | Jawaharlal Nehru | – |
| 1937- Faizpur | Jawaharlal Nehru | First session to be held in a village |
| 1938- Haripura | Subhash Chandra Bose | – |
| 1939- Tripuri | Subhash Chandra Bose | Subhash Chandra Bose defeated Gandhi’s nominee Pattabhi Sitaramayya. |
| 1940- Ramgarh | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | – |
| 1941-1945- No Session | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad continued as the President | The annual session of the Congress could not be held for five years, on account of the launching of the Quit India Movement, when the congress was declared as an illegal organisation and all congress leaders were put behind the bars. |
| 1946- Meerut | J.B. Kripalani | – |
| 1947- Delhi | Rajendra Prasad | – |
| 1948-Jaipur | Pattabhi Sitaramayya | The first session after independence |
| 1950- Nasik | Purushottam Das Tandon | – |
