List of names of INC Presidents from formation to India Independence.
| Name of President | Year of Presidency | Place of Conference |
| Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee | 1885 | Bombay |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | 1886 | Calcutta |
| Badruddin Tyabji | 1887 | Madras |
| George Yule | 1888 | Allahabad |
| William Wedderburn | 1889 | Bombay |
| Pherozeshah Mehta | 1890 | Calcutta |
| Anandacharlu | 1891 | Nagpur |
| Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee | 1892 | Allahabad |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | 1893 | Lahore |
| Alfred Webb | 1894 | Madras |
| Surendranath Banerjee | 1895 | Poona |
| Rahimtulla M. Sayani | 1896 | Calcutta |
| C. Sankaran Nair | 1897 | Amraoti |
| Anandamohan Bose | 1898 | Madras |
| Romesh Chunder Dutt | 1899 | Lucknow |
| N. G. Chandavarkar | 1900 | Lahore |
| Dinshaw Edulji Wacha | 1901 | Calcutta |
| Surendranath Banerjee | 1902 | Ahmedabad |
| Lalmohan Ghosh | 1903 | Madras |
| Henry Cotton | 1904 | Bombay |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | 1905 | Benares |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | 1906 | Calcutta |
| Rashbihari Ghosh | 1907 | Surat |
| Rashbihari Ghosh | 1908 | Madras |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | 1909 | Lahore |
| William Wedderburn | 1910 | Allahabad |
| Bishan Narayan Dar | 1911 | Calcutta |
| Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar | 1912 | Bankipur |
| Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur | 1913 | Karachi |
| Bhupendra Nath Bose | 1914 | Madras |
| Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha | 1915 | Bombay |
| Ambica Charan Mazumdar | 1916 | Lucknow |
| Annie Besant | 1917 | Calcutta |
| Madan Mohan Malaviya | 1918 | Delhi |
| Syed Hasan Imam | 1918 | Bombay (Special Session) |
| Motilal Nehru | 1919 | Amritsar |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | 1920 | Calcutta (Special Session) |
| C. Vijayaraghavachariar | 1920 | Nagpur |
| Hakim Ajmal Khan | 1921 | Ahmedabad |
| Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das | 1922 | Gaya |
| Mohammad Ali Jouhar | 1923 | Kakinada |
| Abul Kalam Azad | 1923 | Delhi (Special Session) |
| Mohandas Gandhi | 1924 | Belgaum |
| Sarojini Naidu | 1925 | Kanpur |
| S. Srinivasa Iyengar | 1926 | Gauhati |
| Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari | 1927 | Madras |
| Motilal Nehru | 1928 | Calcutta |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1929 & 30 | Lahore |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | 1931 | Karachi |
| Ranchod Lal Amrit Lal | 1932 | Delhi |
| Nellie Sengupta | 1933 | Calcutta |
| Rajendra Prasad | 1934 & 35 | Bombay |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1936 | Lucknow |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1936 & 37 | Faizpur |
| Subhas Chandra Bose | 1938 | Haripura, Gujarat |
| Subhas Chandra Bose (resigned) Rajendra Prasad replaced Bose after the session. | 1939 | Tripuri, Madhya Pradesh / Chhatisgadh |
| Abul Kalam Azad | 1940–46 | Ramgarh |
| J. B. Kripalani | 1947 | Meerut |
