High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Motilal Nehru (6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931) was a lawyer, an activist of the Indian National Movement and an important leader of the Indian National Congress, who also served as the Congress President twice, 1919–1920 and 1928–1929. He was the founder patriarch of India`s most powerful political family, the Nehru-Gandhi family.