John Frederick Ficken Jr. (1843–1925) was the forty-eighth mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, completing one term from 1891 to 1895.

He enrolled in the College of Charleston, but he joined the Confederate military at the outbreak of the Civil War.

Ficken was given leave from active duty to complete his college education; he received an A.B.

From 1877 to December 1891, when he assumed the mayorship of Charleston, Ficken served in the South Carolina statehouse as a representative.

[2] Ficken died on April 16, 1925, and is buried at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.