What is the earliest published statement and proof of the well-known result: for a semisimple Lie algebra over $\mathbb{C}$ or other algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, the convex hull (in the dual of a fixed Cartan subalgebra) of the set of weights in a finite dimensional irreducible representation of highest weight $\lambda$ contains only the weights $w \lambda$ iff these are the sole weights of the representation (in which case $\lambda$ is usually called "minuscule").  

I've always tended to think of this result as being due to Kostant---somewhere in his early papers.    But this is too vague.