The Indian National Congress (INC) was established in 1885. The first President of the Indian National Congress was Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee. The Sessions of the Indian National Congress were held every year. In this article, we have published a list of all the sessions of the Indian National Congress before Indian independence.
Sessions of Indian National Congress before Independence
| Year | Venue | President |
| 1885 | Bombay (Sir Tej Pal Sanskrit Vidyalaya) | W.C. Banerjee (Attended by 72 persons, Kadambari Ganguli the first women member) |
| 1886 | Calcutta | Dadabhai Naoroji (First Parsi president) |
| 1887 | Madras | Badruddin Tayabji (First muslim president) |
| 1888 | Allahabad | George Yule (First english president) |
| 1889 | Bombay | William Wedderburn |
| 1890 | Calcutta | Pheroz Shah Mehta |
| 1891 | Nagpur | Anand Charlu |
| 1892 | Allahabad | W.C. Banerjee |
| 1893 | Lahore | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 1894 | Madras | Alfred Webb |
| 1895 | Poona | Surendranath Banerjee |
| 1896 | Calcutta | Rahimtulla Mahomed Sayani |
| 1897 | Amrooti | C. Sankaran Nair |
| 1898 | Madras | Anand Mohan Bose |
| 1899 | Lucknow | Romesh Chunder Dutt |
| 1900 | Lahore | N.G. Chandavarkar |
| 1901 | Calcutta | Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha |
| 1902 | Ahmedabad | Surendranath Banerjee |
| 1903 | Madras | Lalmohan Ghosh |
| 1904 | Bombay | Sir Henry Cotton |
| 1905 | Banaras | G.K. Gokhale |
| 1906 | Calcutta | Dadabhai Naoroji (‘Swaraj’ resolution was passed) |
| 1907 | Surat | Rashbehari Ghosh (Split between Moderates and Extremists) |
| 1908 | Madras | Rashbehari Ghosh |
| 1909 | Lahore | Madan Mohan Malviya |
| 1910 | Allahabad | William Wedderburn |
| 1911 | Calcutta | Bishan Narayan Dhar |
| 1912 | Patna | R.N. Mudhalkar |
| 1913 | Karachi | Syed Muhammad Bahadur |
| 1914 | Madras | Bhupendranath Bose |
| 1915 | Bombay | Sir SP Sinha |
| 1916 | Lucknow | Ambica Charan Mazumdar (Lucknow Pact. Merger of two groups of Congress) |
| 1917 | Calcutta | Mrs. Annie Besant (First women president) |
| 1918 | Bombay (spacial session) | Syed Hasan Imam |
| 1918 | Delhi | Madan Mohan Malviya |
| 1919 | Amritsar | Chittaranjan Das |
| 1920 | Nagpur | C. Vijayaraghav Achariar (Changes in the constitution of congress) |
| 1921 | Ahmedabad | Hakim Ajmal Khan (acting President) Chittaranjan Das was president who was in jail |
| 1922 | Gaya | Chittaranjan Das |
| 1923 | Delhi (spacial session) | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Youngest president) |
| 1923 | Cocanada | Muhammad Ali Jauhar |
| 1924 | Belgaum | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1925 | Kanpur | Sarojni Naidu (First Indian Woman President) |
| 1926 | Guwahati | S. Srinivasa Iyengar |
| 1927 | Madras | M.A. Ansari |
| 1928 | Calcutta | Motilal Nehru |
| 1929 | Lahore | Jawaharlal Nehru (Poorna Swaraj Resolution) |
| 1930 | No session | Jawaharlal Nehru continued as president |
| 1931 | Karachi | Vallabhbhai Patel (Resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic policy was passed) |
| 1932 | Delhi | Ranchhodlal Amritlal |
| 1933 | Calcutta | Nellie Sengupta |
| 1934 | Bombay | Rajendra Prasad (Formation of Congress Socialist Party) |
| 1935 | No Session | Rajendra Prasad continued as president |
| 1936 | Lacknow | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1937 | Faizpur | Jawaharlal Nehru (First Session held in a village) |
| 1938 | Haripur | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| 1939 | Tripuri | 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 |
| 1946 | Meerut | J. B. Kripalani |
| 1947 | Delhi | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1948 | Jaipur | Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya |