A successful lawyer, W C Bonnerjee was born in 1844 in Calcutta and comes lauded as the first president of the Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian to contest election to the British House of Commons.
He was again elected president of the INC in the Allahabad session in 1892. He was a moderate in politics.
He had defended nationalist leader Surendranath Banerjee in a contempt of court case in the High Court of Calcutta.
W C Bondnerjee died in England in 1906.
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