Henry Menasco Wade (November 11, 1914—March 1, 2001) was district attorney for Dallas, Texas. Wade became nationally recognized for prosecuting Jack Ruby for the 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy. He was also the respondent in the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which made abortion legal in the United States. Until that decision, Wade had never lost a case.