| Birth Name: | Harry Woods |
| Order: | 22nd |
| Office: | Secretary of State of Illinois |
| Term Start: | February 3, 1913 |
| Term End: | October 12, 1914 |
| Predecessor: | Cornelius J. Doyle |
| Successor: | Lewis Stevenson |
| Birth Date: | 1863 |
| Birth Place: | Canada |
| Death Date: | October 12, 1914 |
| Death Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Profession: | Investor |
| Party: | Democratic |
Harry Woods (1863 - October 12, 1914) was an American politician and businessman.
Born in Canada, Woods emigrated to the United States in 1877 and settled in Chicago, Illinois. Woods was a messenger and then, in 1890, worked in the grain trade business. From 1913 until his death in 1914 Woods, a Democrat, served as Illinois Secretary of State. In 1914, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. Later that year Woods killed himself in his garage at his home, with a shotgun.[1] [2]