Elbert Lee Trinkle (March 12, 1876 – November 25, 1939) was an American politician who served as the 49th Governor of Virginia from 1922 to 1926.

Trinkle boasted of his support for woman suffrage and some newspapers credited his victory in the primary in part to the women's vote.

On November 25, 1939, he died in Richmond, Virginia, and was interred in East End Cemetery in Wytheville.

However, due to the historical treatment of minorities during the Jim Crow segregation era in which he served, the University of Mary Washington elected to rename the hall, as it runs against the university's ASPIRE policy of inclusion among all students.

1921; Trinkle was elected Governor of Virginia with 64.6% of the vote over Republican Henry W. Anderson and Black-and-tan Republican John Mitchell, Jr. Media related to Elbert Lee Trinkle at Wikimedia Commons