Harry Woods

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. The believed motivation for his suicide was his emotional despondency over his senate election loss.