He was a long-serving Indian civil servant and was sympathetic to the sentiments of Indian nationalists.ġ905: Gopal Krishna Gokhale presided over the Benares conference in 1905. He was a leading Bengali barrister.ġ904: Henry John Stedman Cotton was the president at the 1904 conference at Bombay. He was also on the bench of the Bombay High Court and was knighted in 1910.ġ901: Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, one of the founding members of INC, was president at the 1901 Calcutta session of INC.ġ903: Lalmohan Ghosh presided over the 1903 conference of INC in Madras. He was then one of the leading Hindu reformers in western India. He was a civil servant, writer, translator of Mahabharata and Ramayana, and an economic historian.ġ900: Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was the president of the Lahore session of INC in 1900. A lawyer, jurist and activist by profession, he had slammed the highhandedness of the foreign administration and called for self-governance.ġ898: Anandamohan Bose, a barrister by profession, was the president at the Madras conference in 1898.ġ899: Romesh Chunder Dutt presided over the Lucknow conference in 1899. Till date, he is the only Keralite to have held the position. Sankaran Nair was the president at Amraoti conference of INC in 1897. He was a follower of Aga Khan and was from the Khoja community.ġ897: C. One of the founding members of INC, he was the second Muslim to become its president. He was called the sobriquet Rashtraguru.ġ896: Rahimtulla M Sayani was the president at the Calcutta session in 1896. He was a leading lawyer in the Bombay presidency and was knighted by the British government for his service.ġ891: Anandacharlu presided over the Nagpur session in 1891.ġ894: Alfred Webb was the president at the 1894 Madras conference.ġ895, 1892: Surendranath Banerjee was the president of INC’s Poona session in 1895 and the Ahmedabad conference in 1902. He was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader and social reformer renowned as the Grand Old Man of India.ġ887: Badruddin Tyabji was the president at the Madras conference in 1887.ġ888: George Yule became the first British president of INC and presided over the Allahabad session in 1888.ġ889, 1910: William Wedderburn was the president at the Bombay session in 1889 and the Allahabad conference in 1910.ġ890: Pherozeshah Mehta was the president of INC’s Calcutta session in 1890. The Lahore session in 1893 was also held under his presidentship. Bonnerjee was also the president of INC’s Allahabad session in 1892.ġ886, 1893: Dadabhai Naoroji was the president of the Calcutta conference in 1886. He was the first president of the Indian National Congress. Bonnerjee was the President of the 1885 session in Bombay. Here is a list of all Congress party presidents:ġ885, 1892: W.C.